| 单词 | conceit |
| 例句 | I didn’t know then if I had witnessed the gravest humility or conceit. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry. I rather thought you loved me. A fine blow to my conceit.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The pride, the conceit of these doormat women amazed him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z And this was the story of all those who failed to wait on the counsel of the Lord; who made themselves wise in their own conceit and ran before they had the tidings ready. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Humbleness is in order; there is no excuse for scientific conceit here. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I thought of the youthful almost hysterical excitement and conceit with which I had gone into this marriage, imagining I would bring happiness to Maxim, who had known much greater happiness before. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But the conceit of the film is that it feels like a documentary, even though it isn’t. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In his expression Mrs. Johnson saw, or imagined she saw, not gratitude but arrogance, and, in place of pride, immense conceit. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Willoughby was rare—his preference to remain behind the scenes implied the absence of vast personal conceit, a trait essential for two-penny despots. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Which they did with the ridiculous conceit that the Indians had been the authors of an ecological mega-disaster. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was a good man, and there was no conceit in him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Miss Honey marvelled at the child's lack of conceit and self-consciousness. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z His face goes blank, and he looks down at Helene without conceit or triumph. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The sort of healthy conceit that he had when he returned from America early in the spring was gone. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z For many, the only certainty was the stars, and the ancient astrological conceit prospered in the courtyards and taverns of fear-haunted Europe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Alice gestured with her tiny hands, and what Olanna had once thought to be an elegant fragility suddenly became a self-absorbed conceit, a luxurious selfishness; Alice spoke as if she alone suffered from the war. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Reflecting Lawrence’s lack of conceit when it came to engineering, the machine incorporated the latest innovations of cyclotroneers across the country in designs for transformers, power transmission, the oscillator, and the ion source. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That is our sole ambition: to knock the conceit out of a postman. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “But she is employing the literary conceits and techniques of a novel. And the meeting you speak of has already occurred—you have been reading it for the past quarter of an hour.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The Cromwell conceit is extremely tenuous, serving mainly to justify the incongruous screening of a cartoon Fellows/Shuttleworth has made about the Protector's decapitated head. John Shuttleworth ? review 2010-12-03T23:00:00Z So the measure of Season 2 lies in how well Ms. Dunham and her colleagues withstood all the pressure and stayed true to the original conceit. The TV Watch: Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’ Returns to HBO 2013-01-10T19:50:36Z The conceit is that they're considering leaving the festival after their gig, rather than staying to enjoy it. Latitude comedy review: standup takes over the festival 2013-07-22T12:14:26Z His last band, also with Mr. Lage and three other prodigies, was called Generations, formed with the conceit of giving the whole ensemble a push. Music Review: Swimming in a Sea of Color-Shifting Sound 2010-10-20T22:16:00Z The project’s conceit, that encouraging audacious science will usher in a “new era of accelerated progress in science and health”, is about to be tested. Ambitious Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to combat disease is about to be tested 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z But this structuring conceit is also useful for simplifying an unwieldy topic. Review: ‘Pandemic’ Explains How to Host the Perfect Pathogen Party 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Each episode is inspired by one of the Ten Commandments, a conceit that the series observes with varying degrees of literalism. Movie Listings for Sept. 2-8 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Only white people, the pop-culture conceit goes, can get excited about traveling backward in time. Can ‘The Wonder Years’ Break Through the White Noise of Nostalgia? 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z “The Tribe” deploys an elaborate, rigorously executed conceit in support of a weary, dreary hypothesis: People are awful. Review: ‘The Tribe’ Communicates Without Words 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z It has kept the conceit of calling the episodes “sessions” and aped other aspects of typography and graphics. Review: ‘Cowboy Bebop,’ Minus the Art 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z The conceit was that Walter White was given a diagnosis of two years to live. Television: Shattering All Vestiges of Innocence 2011-07-15T12:00:00Z For a play that is so much about having the average person in one’s thrall, the conceits are dazzlingly on point. Perspective | How London sometimes outshines the lights of Broadway 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The conceit of “BH90210,” then, is to keep viewers guessing whether this project will come together or not. Review | ‘BH90210’ briefly verges on a profound statement about middle age: It’s the pits 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z I still love the real-time conceit of parsing a single day over the course of a season in Fox's new-edition "24: Live Another Day." A new era of secrets and spies in Hollywood 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The costumes might have been basic, but the Cybermen's movement and blank, ghostly faces made them quick classics; the conceit that these people were once like us. The Tomb of the Cybermen: Doctor Who classic episode #3 2013-03-18T15:29:00Z In shades of comedy and tragedy, realism and fantasy, these contemporary authors dig up a lot of old conceits and, like Dr. Frankenstein, zap them to life with mixed results. Review | Does living forever sound ideal? These 5 new books will change your mind. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z As recounted in a 2016 documentary, it famously featured teenage actors playing characters their own age as well as ones who were much older — a conceit that never worked. ‘Merrily’ This Film Will Roll Along. For the Next 20 Years. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z With her “conceit” of Hill House, whether pretty be the word for it or not, Shirley Jackson proves again that she is the finest master currently practicing in the genre of the cryptic, haunted tale. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The conceit of the show, which closes this weekend, is that you can go anywhere in your imagination, and the fuzzy critters do, singing and dancing all the way. Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 24-March 1 2012-02-23T22:21:36Z It’s a mode of action that’s inseparable from thought, from analysis, which the imaginative formal conceits of her stories give physical shape to. “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?”: Kathleen Collins’s Revelatory Short Stories 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z And in the song’s main conceit — an amorous escape from the workweek grind — there’s something comfortingly routine, almost lulling. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Flips Mannequins Into Barbies 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z And the grumpiness conceit is tenuous in the extreme. Grumpy Old Women 2010-04-28T22:20:00Z The story unfolds in six chapters featuring different narrators, all speaking in the first person under different conceits. Kanae Minato's 'Confessions' hits its mark with a vengeance 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z The movie is almost comically effective; given a conceit that seems as simple as an eighth-grade algebra equation, it creates a sense of constant, electrifying, excruciating surprise. The Twisted Appeal of “Don’t Breathe” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z She’s a ridiculous, flamboyant conceit and would be easy to write off if her depravity were not so yoked to her Jewishness. Review: In ‘Triple 9,’ an Appealing Cast Can’t Rise Above the Violence 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z It’s a clever conceit, though Ruotolo sometimes, well, loses track of time. Mac Barnett Reviews Picture Books About Time and Space 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The show, aided by a competent cast and six-person band, badly wants to be insightful and uplifting but struggles under the weight of its own conceit. ArtsBeat: New York Musical Theater Festival Report: ‘Standby’ 2013-07-24T16:21:19Z The demands Tucker’s conceit places on his tiny troupe are formidable. Review | The small-cast ‘Saint Joan’ at Folger Theatre is a mighty big deal. 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z You’ve got another movie on the horizon, “Area 51,” in the same genre as “Paranormal,” which is found footage — the conceit is that the filmmaker edited together recovered video from some horrible event. ArtsBeat: 'Paranormal Activity 2': An Inside Look 2010-10-22T22:09:00Z The title "Nine Muses" derives from its overarching structural conceit, a series of chapter headings dedicated to each of the ancient Greek muses. 'The Nine Muses': Strange take on migrants' icy reception 2012-02-02T21:10:04Z The conceit is simple: Dr. Schiller is hawking a sex-advice book whose title can’t be printed here, and the audience is hearing her promotional lecture. ?Never Sleep Alone? Leads to Audience Relationships 2011-11-30T22:45:03Z This is a show populated with enjoyable characters that spins a familiar conceit, the crime drama, in a way that feels bright and original. Must-devour TV: Bryan Cranston’s “Sneaky Pete” is your new binge-watch obsession 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Perhaps most worryingly, the split album conceit relies on a false binary of Drake’s rapping and singing sides, his tough and tender approaches. For the First Time, Drake Runs From His Feelings 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Creatore’s play focuses on Edwin, and one of its stranger conceits is that it’s Edwin, unhinged by jealousy, who is the crazy brother. | 'An Error of the Moon': Redrawing a Picture of Lincoln?s Assassin 2010-08-31T02:01:00Z But even if it had been more perfectly executed, this conceit feels like a complication too many in an already complicated piece. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z “Authors Anonymous” proves too kindhearted to stick to its satirical guns; even the documentary conceit recedes when it becomes inconvenient. Movie Review: ‘Authors Anonymous’ Looks at Addiction to Being a Writer 2014-04-17T23:11:38Z A few shorts stick to a conceit and find a shape. The Dance on Camera Festival Turns 50, Embracing Its Niche 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z In any event, the conceit is at all times juvenile, and the sophomoric portraits of the five women are astonishingly patronizing. The play ‘Collective Rage’: From audience’s perspective, you can say that again 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Community and are examples of sitcoms that quietly did away with their central conceits sooner rather than later. High (Concept) Anxiety: Are Big Ideas Bad for TV? 2012-11-14T15:40:09Z The conceit holds together because it adheres to the rigorous internal logic Ayckbourn applies to his finest children's fantasies, in which time travel is relatively commonplace. Communicating Doors 2010-09-02T20:30:00Z Unlike the recent K-pop wave, in which Western fans were intrigued by its earnest, upbeat weirdness, Babymetal arrived fully aware of its conceit. Babymetal shreds heavy-metal's seriousness at the Fonda 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z And neither does Auslander, who delivers what could be a satire of his beleaguered conceit, if it weren't so infuriatingly sincere. Showtime's 'Happyish' mostly just selfish and smuggish for now 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z This conceit is clearly borrowed from Robert Bresson’s “Au Hasard Balthazar,” in which a donkey suffers for the sins of a series of owners. Review: ‘Wiener-Dog,’ the Tail That Wags Through a Few Bitter Lives 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Sadly, producers have tackled the central narrative conceit – a shortage of human blood – simply by having the vampires not kill anyone. "It's Lost meets Heroes in real time ? kind of like 24' 2010-06-11T23:07:00Z Knowing the story’s conceit little diminishes Shyamalan’s skill in telling it. Plot Twist! Why 2004 Was a Surprising Year for Movies 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Among the multiple Tommys — different ages, different communication methods, sometimes regarding each other from both sides of the story’s conceit of a mirror — Harvard dominates the second act as the older Tommy. ‘Tommy,’ can you hear me? Deaf culture drives a new take on the Who’s rock opera. 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Its theme is the impermanence of memory, and it's subtly articulated by director Jake Schreier, working from a smart script by Christopher D. Ford that grounds its futuristic conceit in the concerns of today. 'Robot & Frank': A memorable friendship forms in clever dramedy 2012-08-31T00:01:05Z Their presence seems a conceit, but too little of this show seems necessary at all. Anna Nicole - review 2011-02-18T01:07:14Z As for the idea of the avenging angel confronting an industry that mistreated him, and a world that robbed him of his sibling, this is a journalistic conceit, not a carefully cultivated persona. Doom: 'It's all new, all fun' 2012-08-16T13:35:39Z Imagine a Russian setting out to write a history of New York City using only Russian-language material, and you have the inherent conceit that undermines this ambitious project. From the Czars to Putin: A History of Russia’s Imperial City 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The schoolgirl conceit succeeds to a remarkable degree — and deserves a hand for giving women a crack at these juicy roles. ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’: There’s life in the warhorse yet 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z “He does this first of all by humanizing writers through just the right anecdote or conceit.” John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The thesis that we are in a simulation is, as people who track such things know—my own college-age son has explained it to me—far from a joke, or a mere conceit. Did the Oscars Just Prove That We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z It’s easy to see why the conceit of “Room 104” would appeal Mark and Jay Duplass, its creators who examined the messy challenge of long-term relationships in “Togetherness.” Hotel-based shows “Room 104″ and “The Guest Book” have limited staying power 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z It’s a conceit that requires the two actors to click in a particular way, humorously but leaving room for high action and occasionally somber moments. Review: ‘Lethal Weapon’ and ‘MacGyver,’ 2 ’80s Reboots, 1 With Chemistry 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The actors were essentially reading letters to the audience, but that literary conceit still felt dramatic. Arts: San Francisco Bay Area Is a Proving Ground for Musicals 2010-04-10T00:39:00Z The force of his bonhomie gives this murky-looking, empty conceit of a film a desperately needed lift of facetious humor. Movie Review: ‘The Bag Man,’ Starring Robert De Niro 2014-02-28T00:34:03Z The movie proves to be a fragile conceit. Movie Review: A Fragile Romance Unfolds in ‘The Girl and Death’ 2014-04-25T00:40:27Z But the Eras conceit also meant that Swift wouldn’t have to exclusively lean on songs from these albums, which have in general been less popular, consistent and ambitious than her earlier ones. Taylor Swift, Pop’s Maestro of Memory, Returns to the Stage 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z A reality as stark, as brutal, as unresolved as the fascist terror that dominated Spain in the middle decades of the 20th century doesn’t fit comfortably within his elegant frames and melodramatic conceits. ‘Parallel Mothers’ Review: Almodóvar’s Brutal, Beautiful World 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z But there are no tricky conceits in this narrative: it’s a fish-in-water story. The TV Watch: In a Bentley, Trying to Catch the Spotlight Again 2011-05-31T23:45:46Z But the central conceit of the characters’ fates being determined by the “rules” of horror movies feels irredeemably tired; a clever idea that was worth one movie. | 'Scream 4': The Shrieks Continue 2011-04-15T05:58:41Z That’s part of the implicit conceit of this clever sitcom starting Tuesday on BET — part scripted and part improvised — in which all of the stars play lightly parodic versions of themselves. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Real Husbands of Hollywood’ and Lack of Black Male Leads 2013-01-14T23:20:39Z And the show’s central conceit of sending a world-weary individualist wading through the swamp of falsehood that is the advertising industry was first developed by Frederic Wakeman in his 1946 bestseller “The Hucksters.” Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z She borrows the conceit of a forensic procedural to investigate Willa Cather’s work. Margo Jefferson’s New Memoir Experiments With the Form in Startling Ways 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Zimmerman’s incoherent but entertaining production uses the conceit of a rehearsal by a modern-day opera company in which the show’s romantic leads are also lovers in real life. Opera Review: Diana Damrau Takes On ‘La Sonnambula’ at the Met 2014-03-17T22:21:46Z And that conceit – seeing as conceit begins with a c – shall be to start all chapter headings with a c. Digested read: The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry 2010-09-20T20:00:00Z The fairy conceit was a no-brainer: Existence of fairies was pretty much a given at the time, in part due to Arthur Conan Doyle, the walrus-jowled creator of Sherlock Holmes. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Meet Fred, the Tooth Fairy 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Tresnjak's conceit here is that Shylock and his Christian antagonists are present-day, technology-bound money traders — the kinds of people, he implies, who collectively got us into our current fiscal mess. Abraham makes 'Merchant' a memorable show 2011-03-18T21:06:11Z That design conceit, however, wasn't an easy sell. Tour the Stunning Santa Monica Home of Producer Brian Grazer 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z An interesting conceit, a clever film but somewhat perfunctory and altogether less interesting than, for instance, Neil Jordan and Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves. Bluebeard 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Also diverting is the spoofing of the Bard’s favorite narrative conceits. Caliban and the Taliban? Shakespeare as you’ve never imagined. 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z But even though the third season has been streamlined, “Westworld” is still “Westworld,” and there are some major conceits and characters from Seasons 2 that are worth remembering. ‘Westworld’ Season 3 Is Here. Wait, What Happened in Season 2? 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z But I also loved the conceit of Blofeld’s empire hidden in a volcano in “You Only Live Twice.” | Q&A: At the Barbican Centre, James Bond’s Stylish Progress – Q and A 2012-07-18T23:13:39Z Book Club is a film that’s not really about a book club, it’s about four women, friends of very long standing, with no real need of a conceit to bring them together. Mary Steenburgen: 'We have ugly words for successful female actors' 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The art-vs.-mammon conceit might be a convenient organizing principle, but even if it might have been relevant once, it no longer holds. It’s become too facile to pit big summer movies against integrity-filled indies 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The production conceit also seems a bit shopworn. Music Review: An Underworld Rescue With Dancers and Chorus 2011-05-01T21:23:02Z The underlying conceit is solid: for a 12-hour period, one day a year, the US government sanctions all crimes, up to and including murder. Making America Gory Again: how the Purge films troll Trumpism 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z It's a conceit that pays off well, given that Carroll's heroine is usually defined by her capacity for shrinkage, growth spurts and bouts of tears. Alice 2010-06-25T20:30:00Z The musical’s conceit is easy to relate to: Who has not seen a relationship founder under the influence of the persistent voices of doubt raging in our heads? Review: In ‘Up Here,’ Boy (and All His Inner Demons and Angels) Meets Girl 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z He was the winning coach last year, thanks to his student Javier Colon, but Mr. Levine knows perfectly well that despite the show’s conceit, a voice is not in fact enough. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Voice? and ?American Idol? Switch Targets 2012-03-27T23:03:32Z But unlike shows that build on precedent and try to add something new, “The Deep End” is a pale imitation without smart writing, imaginative casting or even a clever conceit. 2010-01-21T06:57:00Z Both, in keeping with a direct-address conceit the play employs intermittently, can be a chatty confidant. Play inspired by rabbi and his fake torahs misses its mark 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The letters are a conceit, and they feel artificial, like exposition-filled movie dialogue. An E.R. Memoir Conveys Hectic Work, Empathy and Outrage 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Initially, the film’s conceit appears to rest on not acknowledging the difference. Review: In ‘I Am Another You,’ Eating From a Garbage Can for Her Art 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The conceit is more effective than heavy-handed because viewers understand what drives the character’s behavior — even if the characters being addressed in the particular scene are unaware. With “The Salesman,” Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi creates another spellbinding domestic drama 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z It was a safe space: many devoted fans, an out-of-the-way city and a conceit — “an evening of songs and stories” — that allowed Ms. DioGuardi to put her personality to work alongside her voice. | Kara DioGuardi: Kara DioGuardi of ?American Idol? in Atlantic City Show 2010-04-11T22:08:00Z He’s more of a conceit to rethink 18th-century art — too often dismissed as dainty — as something more worldly, more swashbuckling, more free. 22 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z In the New York art world, the summer group show is traditionally a polite, low-impact affair of loosely related work under a minimally taxing conceit. Divine Excess on Avenue C 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Riordan has come up with a clever conceit, which is amusingly sustained. The Percy Jackson Problem 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z This was the conceit of the first Bachelor group date, at some local Los Angeles academy for hire. Elizabeth Wurtzel recaps The Bachelor: how do you marry a person you idealize? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s an unbelievable and selfish conceit, a protracted example of the teenager who fantasizes how everyone will react when she’s gone. Review | ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’ shows how adults can really mess up teen angst 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z One conceit of the five-issue story, which wraps up in August, is that each chapter includes scenes of a fairy tale by Alice, about a firefly who is seeking a mate. 8 Comic Books in Honor of Pride 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z And on West Broadway, Nordstrom will open an 11,000-square-foot concept store with an unusual conceit: all the profits will be donated to charity. The Crush Builds as SoHo Revives 2010-12-01T20:39:00Z Elizabethan sonnets are like fantastically complex little puzzle boxes made of words, crammed with extended conceits, puns, double meanings, shifting authorial personas and more. Shakespeare’s sonnets on an iPad 2012-07-24T16:12:00Z And exciting gadgets threaten the sport’s fundamental sad conceit by actually telling you if anything’s down there. Ice Fishing Is Fun! 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z “Meet Cute” complicates its conceit by introducing elaborate plot mechanics involving a tanning-bed time machine, which results in a number of boring expository flashbacks and, later, an extended riff on “The Butterfly Effect.” ‘Meet Cute’ Review: Live. Date. Repeat. 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Andrew Lanyon's show hinges on a curious conceit linking the Cornish holidays of Hitler's ambassador with the innovations of the British modernists who flocked to St Ives at that time. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-22T23:08:10Z Although the colonial animal-snatching conceit of Zoo Quest is extremely dated, each episode focuses as much on the human worlds he visits as the exotic animals. The real David Attenborough 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The novel’s surreal conceit treats beauty as an absolute, all-or-nothing quality. ‘Unfortunate Importance of Beauty,’ by Amanda Filipacchi 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z That conceit is not always accurate, but of course it is through video games that we control the most direct and literal versions of our digital selves. Critic's Notebook: In Tron Franchise, Cyberpresent Looks a Lot Like the Past 2011-01-14T17:29:26Z She and Mr. Stewart go for humor with the conceit in “Landlord” — that she’d prefer romance to rent money — but even backed by a lone acoustic guitar, Ms. Stone works herself up to desperate pleas. New Music: Career In Motion Discovers A Perch 2011-07-25T21:45:24Z Missing, though, is the opera’s conceit of seeing the same story twice, warped by mythologizing and erasure. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z “Beyond Belief,” right after it—“History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats”—pushed that blue feeling into something spontaneous and urgent. Elvis Costello at the Beacon: Misery and Splendor 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Instead, it keeps layering on its pet conceits as if the idea of parting with any of them were unbearable. Review: Staging a Movie Melodrama in ‘The Conversationalists’ 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z The plot, stretched thin even at just 90 minutes, is extremely predictable, and therefore boring, and the film doesn’t do enough with its high-concept shock-therapy conceit to feel fresh or novel. ‘Jolt’ Review: Danger, High Voltage 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z And the writers try to copy the conceit of the original “Scream,” a horror movie built on droll horror-movie references. Review: A TV ‘Scream,’ With Fresh Carnage and Winking Nods to the Genre 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z But be warned – despite employing a conceit that is by now the clone of a clone's corpse, plenty of folks will ignore that base note's stank and see it through. Netflix's self-serious "Jupiter's Legacy" is the superhero TV version of a Designer Imposter stinker 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Contra, however, was a remarkably assured entrant, serving intricate and even challenging food with a simple conceit: five courses for fifty-five dollars. Tables for Two: The Finest New York Restaurants in 2014 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z The central conceit is loopy – one of those distinctly King-ian turns that few authors are able to pull off. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 20: Skeleton Crew 2013-05-08T12:23:38Z Like the slightly canted angle that the director Viesturs Kairiss uses throughout the film, this playful conceit offers an off-kilter perspective on the past, emphasizing the tragic absurdity of human brutality. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Irritating at first, the conceit works by meshing with Wagner's opera instead of conflicting with it. Rats and recycling: Wacky Wagner at Bayreuth 2011-08-03T22:16:04Z He knows that we know that he knows that these categories are something of a packaging conceit. ‘Major Labels’ Wraps Popular Music — All of It — in a Warm Embrace 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Although none of the far-fetched shenanigans that follow match the story's initial conceit in real-life absurdity, the movie desperately piles on more and more silliness with a fundamental absence of credibility. 'Why Stop Now': Rehab comedy/drama overdoses on silliness 2012-08-23T20:56:12Z In this staging conceit the opera was presented as a screening of a silent-era film. Music Review: ‘Ciro in Babilonia’ by Rossini, in Bel Canto at Caramoor 2012-07-08T21:08:06Z It’s an odd conceit on which to hang any album, much less one by a versatile and very polished singer and rapper. New Music: New Albums From Estelle, Lambchop and Matthew Shipp Trio 2012-02-27T23:36:19Z With such visual and filmic conceits, Gainsbourg is more about capturing the flavour of the man than dwelling on the specific details of his life and it's all the better for it. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-01-08T00:06:11Z But there are enough links — Minnesota, a fake true-crime conceit, a fateful auto accident, an intrepid female cop, “uff da” — to make the two productions close cousins, at least. A TV Version of ‘Fargo’ Has Parallels to the Film 2014-04-09T16:00:25Z The conceit’s protracted, melodramatic obviousness was redeemed, partly, by Mr. Muñoz’s intensity. Dance Review: Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana at the Joyce Theater 2013-06-03T20:21:05Z Primarily, the show, around 2000 or so, abandoned its central conceit slowly, then all at once. Will “The Simpsons” ever be good again? 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z It was a truism of the old art world, perhaps a conceit or maybe a genuine truth, that it forced us into uncomfortable places, challenged assumptions, refashioned basic ways of seeing. Perspective | As the art world reopens, will the change be genuine? This critic is looking in some unlikely places. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Similarly, the idea of somebody tearing through the fantasy of movie-going and turning into an opportunity for destruction is no longer a clever cinematic conceit. “Gangster Squad”: A theater shooting in a movie. Too soon? 2012-07-24T17:20:00Z My first memory is not of walking with my mother Yvonne in Valetta, yet it is a whimsical conceit, so let it suffice. Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z Moses famously called it “the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste.” The East River Waterfront Dazzles. Take a Virtual Tour. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z And I don't just mean the lavish lifestyle, but the "reality" conceit of having supposedly independent, functioning adults all live together, right on top of each other, like they're in a college dorm. "Jersey Shore" recap: 4x1 2011-08-05T12:30:00Z In a way, so does Mr. Talbott’s deluxe staging, by enhancing the play’s conceit at the expense of its characters. Review: Finding Their Inner Goddesses in ‘The Convent’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z If, that is, politically motivated shootings and bombings in big cities were fantastical tropes or metaphorical conceits, like zombie epidemics or extraterrestrial invasions. Review: Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z A festival of language, happy conceit and peerless delivery: This is a recording for the ages. Review | Cuddle up and listen: 3 great audiobooks to stave off the winter blues 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z “The comic conceit about two of those songs is that they’re not very good,” Mr. Cave said. Nick Cave’s ‘The Sick Bag Song,’ an Epic Poem Composed on Tour 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z While “Room 237” sought evidence for its most outlandish conceits, “The Nightmare” declines to delve. Review: ‘The Nightmare,’ Rodney Ascher’s Look at Sleep Paralysis 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z An urban panorama is viewed from a high vantage point, a conceit used in topographic art to render vast perspectives. Art Review: John Martin's Greatness and High Kitsch 2011-09-30T11:30:09Z A metatheatrical conceit revealed halfway through doesn’t really add much to the play’s impact, but Mr. Ives’s portrait of two do-gooding churchgoers contemplating mortality has a tender tug. Review: David Ives, in ‘Lives of the Saints,’ Mixes Gags and Philosophy 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z This conceit works best when you don’t see it coming. “Fleishman Is in Trouble” Turns the Marriage Novel Inside-Out 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z The conceit was spectacularly imaginative: the sheets had enough form to become both dynamic sculptures and, in their murmured crinkling, significant percussive accompaniment for occasional wails from Sunny Yang’s cello. Review: Kronos Quartet Offers a Creative Snapshot of a Global Pandemic 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Niebuhr's theological idiom is part of his appeal to the American political class, part of what enables him to challenge some of the enduring conceits of American imperialism. Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now 2011-07-21T11:45:29Z That conceit, though, probably plays better in a high school auditorium than a Broadway theater. Review | ‘Be More Chill’ found an audience online. But in a Broadway theater, it lost me. 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z This is work playing knowingly on art's innate artifice and on each individual artist's wilfully composed self-creative conceits. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-05T23:09:02Z But his jokes rely on the conceit that society is on the same page about trans people as he is — Colbert gets it, Time gets it, some people on the Internet get it. Why “The Colbert Report’s” segment on sex-change surgery falls flat 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Bordelon’s staging for Roundabout Theater Company balances the play’s humor with its sobering central conceit. ‘… What the End Will Be’ Review: Learning to Let Go 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z It employs a familiar conceit — dysfunctional family gathers for holiday meal — and enlists recognizable actors to deliver it, but the result plays like a collection of ideas and jokes borrowed from other movies. Review: In ‘Love the Coopers,’ a Dysfunctional Family Sits Down to Christmas Dinner 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z This is where the queasy part comes in: the story’s central conceit that the lovers meet when Clare is 6 and an adult Henry tumbles naked onto her family’s estate. ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ Review: Making the Leap, Again 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z At the start, the show’s chief distinction was its complicated conceit: in 2030, a father is telling his two children the long, circuitous story of how he met their mother. The TV Watch: ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Ends With Twists Expected and Sweet 2014-04-01T04:10:26Z Each of these three figures addresses the court, the dead man via a medium – an amazingly, electrifyingly strange conceit, carried off with absolute conviction. Film review: Rash?mon 2010-06-17T22:30:00Z But the conceit of this sketch is a little different; instead of extending to absurdity, it offers up the idea that this problem, this plague against bodies like their own, is absurd to begin with. Gallows humor in the age of #BlackLivesMatter: “Key & Peele” returns and “Why? with Hannibal Buress” premieres, not a moment too soon 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Roc Marciano even takes an effective stab at a trite conceit on “Jungle Fever,” anthropomorphizing drugs as a woman: “Had to hide you from my mother ’cause you didn’t have color.” Playlist: Debuts From Roc Marciano and Miranda Cosgrove 2010-05-07T17:23:00Z Freedom is a conceit well suited to a collection of essays. From Justin Bieber to Martin Buber, Zadie Smith’s Essays Showcase Her Exuberance and Range 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The ethical territory it covered suggested that filmmakers were finding new ways to go at old Cold War conceits. A new era of secrets and spies in Hollywood 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z But Rebeck, a prolific TV and theater writer, has devised a nifty conceit, and she’s a whiz at dialogue that keeps the dynamics popping and shifting. Comic angst, alive and well on Seattle stages 2013-01-31T23:00:10Z But the central conceit of "kids fight to the death" is there. Quentin Tarantino: The Hunger Games “ripped off” Battle Royale 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Erdrich is not so much tantalizing as miserly with the details of her fantastical conceit. Do we need another ‘Handmaid’s Tale’? 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z The conceit of writing directly into one’s own life is a way of dividing the self, and among the mysteries this novel explores is how it is possible to be in two places at once. In ‘Forest Dark,’ Nicole Krauss Plays With Divided Selves 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Homemade-looking videos, thanking Jem for giving voice to their concerns through her bland songs, keep cropping up to try to sell this conceit. Review: ‘Jem and the Holograms’ Are Shadows of Their Former Selves 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z But its characters are drawn with such empathy and humor that it’s easier than you might expect to take the play’s more fantastical conceits at face value. Review: ‘Little Children Dream of God,’ a Drama of Haitian Refugees 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Although the conceit of the Museum of Innocence has no precedent in literature, it would sit quite comfortably in the realm of conceptual art. | Orhan Pamuk 2012-10-04T15:00:21Z In some ways, “The Statement of Stella Maberly” could be construed as a typical Ansteyan conceit, given a very dark twist. You’ve probably never heard of F. Anstey, but you know his work 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, the movie—which features a screenplay that could have been written by Western Union and hardly enough fight-free scenes to fill a trailer—has a remarkable overarching conceit. “John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum,” Reviewed: Empty Fight Scenes with a Paranoiac Chill 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The American Dream is rooted in the conceit that we are always moving on up, obtaining better lives—usually as defined by the accumulation of more belongings. Protest doesn’t work — except when it does 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z New Orleanians are by turns unaware, unconcerned or unconvinced of the modern conceits of “personal space” and “too much information.” Bobby Jindal’s hatred won’t spread: The governor’s right-wing illness can’t destroy New Orleans 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Part of the conceit, after all, is locating the theater as a gathering space — a place for collaboration. Review: ‘The Watering Hole’ Can’t Quite Quench a Thirst 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Jay Sanders, Artists Space’s executive director, has chosen to reopen with what you might call an anti-statement show: four artists of different generations, not linked by a curatorial conceit or even a title. Artists Space Re-emerges as an Enduring Downtown Alternative 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z There's something of a cold war air of dread half suppressed beneath utopian conceits. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z But the organizing conceit of all his fiction has remained consistent: Asian Americans are not monoliths. Don Lee’s Long War on Asian American Stereotypes 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The new entries are trying to distinguish themselves in the execution as well as the conceit — to create complex characters and be about something. Welcome to the Zoo. Or Call It Prime-Time TV. 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z We were also surprised to accept the whole conceit so readily. Your Vacation Mission? Find This Stolen Horse 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z In the exhibition, the “loophole” becomes a kind of artistic conceit, too, in which Leigh moves deftly between mediums, styles and messages, addressing multiple audiences — but always, as she has stated, black women. 38 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z As a character, Lolo is a conceit of indulgent parenting and never fully blooms. Review: In Julie Delpy’s ‘Lolo,’ a Teenager Tries to Sabotage His Mother’s Romance 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z In sports, Americans have a set of analogies, images, tropes, and conceits, through which we understand ourselves, even when those metaphors, like Obama’s, woefully distort the reality we’re trying to describe. CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z The suicidal-architect conceit turns out to be something of a facade for a blend of memoir, travelogue and philosophical tract. The Buildings That Drove Their Creators to Despair 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Even now, plenty of sitcoms still use characters’ origins to gin up a fish-out-of-water conceit. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Ends a Strong First Season 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z The dance-theater conceits hit and miss, and often when they hit, they hit too hard, too heavily. Dance Review: David Dorfman?s ?Prophets of Funk? at the Joyce Theater 2012-01-25T23:51:50Z It's a promising enough conceit - a stressed, untrustworthy but inherently decent guy trying to play the role model - but the day takes awkward, implausible turns, jumping from violence to stone-skipping in the harbor. Capsule reviews of new movies 2013-01-16T20:59:09Z For a decade now, "American Idol" has been winning fans with its weekly wallop of suspense and surprise, along with a fairy-tale conceit that fortune can smile on even the most obscure among us. The night my family won "American Idol" 2011-08-15T16:30:00Z In these days of Occupy Wall Street, the central conceit of the work — that these pirates are really lords who have gone astray — should have been cutting. Music Review: ?Pirates of Penzance? at Symphony Space - Review 2011-12-30T21:47:29Z Veteran Seattle playwright Longenbaugh has formulated a nifty conceit here, and he runs with it. Review: Holmes lore wrapped up neatly in Taproot production 2010-12-02T21:36:00Z Occasionally, the contours of a conventional coming-of-age story are visible through the haze, making Ms. Decker’s techniques seem as willful and contrived as some of Evangeline’s theatrical conceits. Review: In ‘Madeline’s Madeline,’ Hazy Boundaries Between Life and Art 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z In contrast to other episodes, the central conceit about technology’s incursion into our lives isn’t necessarily horrific or frightening. Best TV episodes of the decade, a highly subjective list 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z Overall, the novel sets up a classic conceit, hate for hate, and both extremes erupt with bruising force. Review | Johannes Anyuru’s latest novel is an award winner in Sweden. If there’s any justice, some of that success will cross the Atlantic. 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Sala's conceit turns upon a hopeless Ravel/Unravel pun; still the music soars undiminished. 55th Venice Biennale – review 2013-06-01T23:05:00Z Then again there’s a cheesiness built into the solemn Rock Star as Mythic Being conceit. Theater Review | 'Sounding': Swimming in Murky Waters Infested With Death and Life 2010-03-02T22:19:00Z This did not dissuade Warner Media from constructing a starring vehicle for contemporary basketball titan LeBron James around the same conceit. ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ Review: That’s Not Quite All, Folks 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Yet the conceit — a photographer can no longer trust what she sees — seems too pat to undergird a work of genuine surrealism. In ‘The Moment,’ Doubts About a Character’s Sanity 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Directorial conceits are applied delicately, in keeping with the gentler threads of this Shakespearean romance, balanced on the precarious edge of comedy and tragedy. Review | ‘The Winter’s Tale’ should warm your heart. This one leaves you cold. 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z He was never afraid to be goofy and playful, either, taking the conceit far beyond simple mimicry of O'Reilly's tics or attitudes. Stephen Colbert departs, and his Nation mourns 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z But Monks's conceit taps into the irony that Gilbert and Sullivan's most exotic creation is really one of their closest to home. The Mikado 2010-07-15T20:45:00Z The novel’s conceit is that this story was published in 1898 by Marguerite’s son, Thomas, based on his mother’s tales. Newly Released - Coming of Age Novels 2010-05-19T22:12:00Z It's a "Paranormal Activity" knockoff, without the found footage conceit. 'The Apparition': not a ghost of a chance of being good 2012-08-24T17:26:04Z Like its stablemate, Wallander, Zen relies on the jarring conceit of sticking a cast of British actors in a foreign setting to play foreigners with British accents. Rewind TV: Zen; Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent; Silent Witness ? TV review 2011-01-09T00:05:37Z Its conceit, through all of its revisions, has been to combine the grand forces of a symphony orchestra with those of Mr. Marsalis’s Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Music Review: The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-06-02T20:37:30Z The moderately engaging conceit here is that the narrator’s complex regarding her demanding and irascible mother causes her to sabotage romantic relationships with men and women alike. Queer Exile: Three Novels About Émigrés, Lovers and Family 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The conceit seemed to be one of innocence, as if the performers were discovering what instruments were and how to use them. Pierre Rigal Imagines a Pop Concert at the Joyce 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z A main conceit of “True” is that nature is alive and sentient. New at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade: A Sunny Little Cloud 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z But it was Cage who advocated true democracy, which meant throwing a monkey wrench into such high-minded musical conceit, and Cunningham was the monkey. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z But this conceit complements a meaty, galloping set about religion, the prospect of dying alone and most of all, a cleareyed portrait of where he is now. Marc Maron, at BAM, Finds That Happy Also Gets Laughs 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Eventually, I began to mistrust every word—not because of the potential dishonesty of the characters, and not because the artifice in Schweblin’s conceit was becoming unwieldy. The Sick Thrill of “Fever Dream” 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The show's central conceit was to show a full 24 hours unfolding in real-time, a bold move for an already complex show. Jacking it in 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z Nunn calls it a "visualised radio play", and the conceit is that the audience are eavesdroppers at a studio recording. All That Fall: the Samuel Beckett stage play that isn't 2012-11-07T19:00:01Z The conceit for “Spa Sybarite” is both slightly absurd and eminently believable. Cautionary Climate Tales That Give People Pause When They Press Play 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z But now the conceit of callous incompetence masquerading as leadership just doesn’t seem as funny as it once did. The ecstasy of defeat: “Veep” is back and better than ever 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z The conceit of the evening was music by young composers feistily experimenting with the symphonic style. The Music Academy of the West's grand adventure 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The triumph of secular materialism may be the conceit of modernity, but it does very little to unveil the essence of culture or to account for its diversity and complexity. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z Let us pause here to marvel at the challenge the filmmakers have set for themselves, which is to say at the many different ways this conceit isn’t funny. Review: ‘Get Hard,’ With Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Despite its sour centre, Cake’s conceits quickly crumble, leaving just a half-baked pity. Cake review – an anti-vanity vehicle for Jennifer Aniston 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Greenberg’s program, which opened the festival, offered two works commissioned for the occasion, both with heady intellectual conceits but relatively little to move the soul. A Weekend Can Span Centuries at Tanglewood 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z In the end, a Pollock is as calculated as a Hockney, and the pairing feels like an irritating academic conceit. A Bigger Splash: did performance art change painting? 2012-11-12T19:00:05Z Because, while the central conceit is unique and the performances are fun, each episode is weighed down with endless padding. The Masked Singer: the year's strangest TV show is already here 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The book on the top was “The Light Between Oceans,” and I thought it was a cinematic conceit. Derek Cianfrance Narrates a Scene From ‘The Light Between Oceans’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Just how amusing you find that conceit will largely determine how much you enjoy the book, winner of the prestigious German Book Prize. A Dark Comedy About Life at the Heart of the European Union 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z He just liked the conceit of “a show with delusions”. Cary Fukunaga: exclusive interview with the new James Bond director 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Everything goes pretty much as you guess it’s going to, but the conceit of seeing the whole story through the eyes of the videographer adds a dimension to the familiar goings-on. Movie Review: ‘Breakup at a Wedding,’ Directed by Victor Quinaz 2013-08-02T01:13:49Z The character’s conceit is a mask that’s always in danger of slipping, which complicates his heroism with moments of bluffing, comedy and doubt. Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z A childhood without boundaries is delicious to contemplate but terrifying to actually confront, which is why it’s the conceit of so many children’s stories and the great theme of fairy tales. Escape from Childhood 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Though the didactic conceit may soon wear thin, it felt as if these women had a lot more to say. | 'The River Crosses Rivers II' : Ensemble Studio Theater Presents Microplays - Review 2011-09-27T22:15:44Z The first episode typifies the structural conceit: a teen-ager will not close her phone’s camera app, even to call 911, despite the fact that supernatural mayhem is slimily spoiling a slumber party. How Snap Originals Beat Facebook and Instagram in Adapting TV to Social Media 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z It’s a funny conceit, but it plays a bit too long and could have pushed the joke much further. Inside Amy Schumer: she's back, but lacking bite 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Staub designed the house so that its rear façade is oriented toward the street, a conceit that keeps the main entrance secluded while a parklike expanse of lawn offers curb appeal. Bruce Budd Redecorates Houston Mansion 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z The timing of this conceit would be dicey. Critic’s Notebook: A Boston Biennial Celebrates the Baroque Tradition 2013-06-18T21:16:06Z However, no change of focus would alter the show’s central conceit. The Newsroom: is Aaron Sorkin threatening to bring back his worst show? 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z At first sight, it's a simple conceit, a reversal of traditional gender roles. Just don't call it a freak show 2010-04-30T23:07:00Z It’s an intriguing, romantic bit of poetry, more literary conceit than literal fact. ‘Entering Burn Area’: Yosemite After the Fire 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z With its metafictional bounties and playful genre bent, “One Cut” offers a conceit ripe for the picking. ‘Final Cut’ Review: A Feeble Rise of the Living Dead 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z “Harvey” prefigures the wave of countercultural movies in the 1960s that would turn truth-telling kooks into an overused conceit, but Chase got there first, and she doesn’t push the philosophizing down our throats. Theater Review: ‘Harvey,’ With Jim Parsons, at Studio 54 2012-06-15T02:17:16Z This season’s conceit, in which the show appeared to be focusing on skilled contestants over punchline-ready singers, felt like a bait-and-switch. ArtsBeat: "American Idol": The Top 12 Guys 2011-03-02T10:40:23Z Still, the concert — the Miller’s first Composer Portrait of the season — confirmed the ways in which Lim can create drama through experimental conceits. Review: A Portrait Reveals a Composer With a Dramatic Edge 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z There are flashbacks to Kimmy’s life in the bunker, and they are harshly funny, but that kind of conceit may be necessary to a fish-out-of-water comedy these days. Review: ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Features a Midwestern Fish Out of Water 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The bed is onstage, and her lying in it is the central conceit of “More Than Just a Piece of Sky.” ‘More Than Just a Piece of Sky’ Examines Queer Identity 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z How can you contemporize a work whose very conceit — its whole plot, its central perspective — will land like a well-meaning but ignorant cousin’s comment in a conscientious cultural conversation? Review: ‘The Visitor’ Lags Behind the Times 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z But loving this show means worrying that it might be devoured by its own genius, that it’s too great to last, that, eventually, conceit will cannibalize concept. ‘Atlanta’ Skips a Grade 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z She adds that for her, the exhibition’s conceit “highlights the power in deconstructing what seems functional and creating something more durable and beautiful.” Willie Cole’s Ecological Interventions Turn Trash Into Art 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Yo La Tengo capture the mundane dilemmas of the performing band – "Monday matinee … So hard to choose between conceit and rock." Readers recommend songs about concerts: the results 2010-05-27T22:30:00Z Ms Morris entertains the conceit that the artist’s spirit speaks to her through the small bird that she sees in a painting titled “Portrait of a Young Knight”. Venetian love affair 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Somewhat of a cultural magpie, Mr. Allen has often folded bits and pieces — and at times entire conceits — from other work into his movies. Review: ‘Wonder Wheel,’ Woody Allen’s Coney Island Memory Palace 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z While the “fabulous” conceit depicts the single life as a breezy carnival ride, living on your own in our very couple-centric culture is actually quite a lot of work. Stop telling single women they’re fabulous! 2014-02-05T13:00:00Z Second, it is not an "unlikely conceit" that a brown skinned Colombian Latino could be mistaken for a Mexican Latino by a bully. Review: John Leguizamo Goes for Easy Laughs in ‘Latin History’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z “The Museum of Innocence” is a unique literary conceit, but also a physical place called the Museum of Innocence, which the writer opened in Istanbul in 2012. | Sentimental Journey 2014-03-21T21:21:20Z Pop fizzed with a luminous effervescence as it mixed with international club culture and postmodern lyrical conceits. The Olympics closing ceremony proves we're still stuck in the 90s 2012-08-14T11:46:24Z Many horror films are built around the conceit of naïve, ordinary people caught in unimaginable circumstances. ‘I Trapped the Devil’ Review: Anxiety, Panic and Maybe Satan on a Holiday Visit 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z This conceit, though, is soon torpedoed both by a story that grows more implausible with each passing second and by his character’s gift for self-preservation. ‘Beckett’ Review: He Must Go On 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Scott described as “a conceit, a plaything and a structural principle” in his December 2015 review for The New York Times. Cursed Films, Blessed on Blu-ray 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The conceit behind these New York Times “exit interviews” is that artists can talk about what they experienced, and what they learned, as a run comes to a close. Please Welcome Tracy Letts to the Stage. Now, Say Goodbye. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Though grounded in deeply sensitive past events, the series shares its most keen insights in the throes of its superhero conceit. The Great Achievement of “Watchmen” Is in Showing How Black Americans Shape History 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z It, too, is rich in its details, though the conceit here is classical antiquity rather than exoticism. Fontainebleau: A Forgotten Treasure 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z It's a funny conceit, but yields steeply diminishing returns. Judah Friedlander – review 2013-06-05T12:33:00Z Ms. Zink gets some rich social comedy out of this conceit. Review: In Nell Zink’s ‘Mislaid,’ a Lesbian on the Run Masquerades as Black 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The “Autobiography” was the idiosyncratic Stein’s first best seller, a circular conceit written by Gertrude in Alice’s voice, of their lives together. The Autobiography of Maira Kalman 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z In “The Premonition,” Lewis makes the most of his conceit, flashing backward and forward through the decades to show us how and when the warning signs flashed. Michael Lewis Chronicles the Story of Covid’s Cassandras 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z But the show smacks of the self-indulgence of two devoted analysands building gleefully on each other’s crazier-than-thou conceits. | 'Anyone Can Whistle': Sondheim Tribute to Politics and Other Craziness 2010-04-10T00:20:00Z She is by far the youngest but fits nicely into the conceit of the show. Michael and Ashley Darby’s plan for surviving ‘Real Housewives’? To have fun. 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z In Avatar's case, the film is in many ways closer to Titanic than Aliens or Terminator in its core conceits, and James Cameron's romantic tragedy is hardly a film with a niche audience. Scott Pilgrim Vs the World: le geek, toujours chic? 2010-08-19T15:36:00Z Such a conceit — a projection of a perspective from ancient Judea onto the lifestyle of a contemporary secular New York Jew — might strike some readers as tendentious or random, but it’s not. An Unusual Jewish Novel, Full of Blood and Incense 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z The original conceit of “Bandersnatch” was that it would be an interactive show about an interactive game. ‘Black Mirror’ Gives Power to the People 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z At least, this is the conceit of “Jesus Is King,” West’s new album and a document of an alleged spiritual awakening. Kanye West’s True Salvation on “Jesus Is King” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z It’s a feminist-informed conceit that aligns with major recent changes to princess media as a whole. Seattle stages will soon be packed with princesses. Is that a problem? 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z One of the show’s boldest conceits was its tendency to stage entire episodes as exercises in a particular style or genre. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Community’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z The Scandinavian series kept the conceit: Its second season, online at Hulu on Friday, begins with a cargo ship mysteriously veering off course and running up against one of the piers of the Oresund Bridge. After a Remake for American Viewers, Back to Understatement 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z The rotunda is also depicted more than once as an Edenic forest or a post-apocalyptic jungle, a conceit that almost always impresses. Art Review | 'Contemplating the Void': Take This Museum and Shape It 2010-02-19T05:56:00Z Right at the beginning two parallel conceits are set in motion. Movie Review: ?The Cabin in the Woods,? by Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon 2012-04-12T22:00:36Z The dissociative quality of “Playing ‘Metal Gear Solid V,’” which feels appropriate given the conceit of the story, extends to the others in the collection with uneven results. The Echoes and Echoes and Echoes of War 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z In “Story of My Death,” Serra mines a clever conceit for its vast historical reach; his frozen images seem to bend and break with spidery cracks under the tension of their inner conflict. Albert Serra’s “Story of My Death” 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z But the conceit is forgivable, because Watson's nervous persona is endearing, his angst easy to identify with – and the navel-gazing yields several big laughs. Mark Watson ? review 2011-01-10T22:30:01Z Mason Bates’s “Observer in the Magellanic Cloud,” whose conceit is a satellite stumbling on a Maori ceremony, was, amid electronic beats and faux-tribal flourishes, both patronizing and incoherent. Music in Review 2011-04-09T00:11:04Z Fidler, a well-known Australian radio broadcaster, uses the conceit of exploring Istanbul with his young son as a narrative prop. A City Where East Meets West and the Past Is Always Present 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The conceit is that the actors are inmates of a women’s prison, putting on these plays to grapple with questions of revenge, reformation, and forgiveness. Two Ways to Bring Shakespeare Into the Twenty-First Century 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z How are we to believe in her conceit if she doesn’t? Dance Review: Jillian Peña’s ‘Guiding Light’ at Chocolate Factory 2012-12-09T22:58:27Z It’s all mellowly funny rather than creepy, something like a stand-up conceit elaborated into scenes. In ‘Summer of Blood,’ a Vampirish Makeover 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z As part of their state-set conceit, they were literally in a box: a cube covered with sheer fabric. Music Review: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Celebrates 15 Years 2014-04-14T21:55:59Z “I believe, I believe,” Mr. Bekmambetov said, when asked if this universe is rooted in conviction or is just a movie conceit. Aside From the Vampires, Lincoln Film Seeks Accuracy 2011-05-09T12:00:00Z Whatever Happened to … was essentially a clips job, given shape by the conceit that the major players had all suffered a falling-out but were now hoping to get back together for one last show. TV review: Whatever Happened to Harry Hill? Vic & Bob's Lucky Sexy Winners; Just Around the Corner 2012-08-23T22:15:01Z The sharper lines of the drama are smudged out in the service of one awkward conceit or faulty performance after another. Review | Glenda Jackson as King Lear was a good idea. Why is everything around her so wrong? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The unlikeliest conceit on “Grantchester” turned out not to be the obvious one—a cop-vicar sleuthing team in a quaint village beset with murderers—but that the vicar was a vicar at all. The Unholy Pleasures of “Grantchester,” The Original Hot-Priest Show 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z The conceit of Whitehead’s novel is oddly whimsical: He imagines that the Underground Railroad, the system of safe houses and clandestine routes used to smuggle slaves north, was, in fact, an actual railroad built underground. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The narrative conceit here is similar to that of “The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church,” the recent fictional monologue in which Daniel Kitson dug through boxes of letters to tell a stranger’s life story. | 'Locker No. 4173b': One Person?s Detritus Is Someone Else?s Play 2011-05-10T21:40:15Z Rich people getting their comeuppance has been a standard conceit since the Great Depression. ‘Arbitrage’ and the Rich and Troubled Bad Guy 2012-09-02T07:27:26Z It’s a lame conceit, but we are stuck with it. Post Hunt 2014: What you need to know. At the least. If one can see past the irrelevant countdown conceit, and resign oneself to the celebrity presenters, this is mildly diverting popular history. TV highlights 05/07/2013 2013-07-05T05:59:00Z But the show’s conceit is dependent on Sudeikis giving the character honesty and charm without smarm, and he does. AP Emmy pundits favor ‘The Crown,’ ‘Ted Lasso’ for honors 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Her role as a glamorous if dauntingly earnest Lois Lane is, she knows, a Hollywood conceit. Rosario Dawson’s Newsroom Tour Is a Reality Check 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z The conceit is simple, but the effect is overpowering. How the Blaze’s Emotional Dance Music Brings Listeners to Tears 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The movie’s prize conceit is that the killer is a poet manqué, obsessed with the work of Baudelaire. ‘Lured’ and ‘A Scandal in Paris’: Douglas Sirk’s Costume Capers 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The templates end up feeling like an inconsequential conceit, a bare bit of structure to rein in the chaos. Simmons & Burke's newest at Kohn: Digital collages that dazzle and daunt 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z Mostly, they are just vaguely sketched conceits — jaded, corrupt, yammering — who look good in suits, smack around generic villains and make nice with the ladies. Review: ‘War on Everyone’ Is Missing Some Crucial Components 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z At two and a quarter hours it is way too long for its purposes, and the book, which often suggests an after-school special with four-letter words, stretches a central whimsical conceit until it loses elasticity. | 'I'll Be Damned': At the Vineyard, a Musical With a Devil?s Bargain 2010-07-12T21:42:00Z There’s a conceit to this, which is that he’s writing these at lunch, supposedly some of them on typewriters that are in stores, just devoting himself to them. The poetry of “Mad Men”: When Matthew Weiner first read Frank O’Hara, “it was just like total time travel” 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z It's a conceit that reflects the narcissism of the iPhone generation. Review: `Watch' breathes life into familiar genre 2012-09-18T23:01:07Z It’s also, despite a potentially compelling conceit, pretty ridiculous. ‘Running Against the Wind’ Review: Love and Friendship in Addis Ababa 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z There are lulls, when you wonder whether the conceit will sustain after its giddy novelty wears off. Jackson's Way ? review 2011-01-09T21:30:01Z In 1980, Wolfe emerged from his self-imposed netherworld with “In Our Time,” his book of mocking sketches and stinging essays about the 1970s’ absurd fashions, trendy morals and silly conceits. Tom Wolfe’s Lesser Known Career as a Cartoonist 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Even when The Onion was just a scruffy free weekly found in Madison, Wis., vestibules, its conceit was that it was the centerpiece of a big media empire. Onion blooming on TV 2011-01-11T00:34:00Z But other conceits and performances are less satisfying. Review | GALA’s uneven ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ offers sweet moments 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Literary conceits melt in the intimacy of the music. Review: Laura Marling’s ‘Semper Femina’ Seeks the Cryptic in the Plainspoken 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Naturally, the conceit of the play requires Sarah, who now works at the school as a custodian, to face a persuasive combatant in the form of her latest teacher, James. Review: Sound, or Silence? A Passionate Debate in ‘Children of a Lesser God’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Nor does the play resolve the conceit it takes two acts to set up, of a romance built on deception, despite promising its revelation as the primary source of narrative momentum. ‘Smart’ Review: A.I. in the Living Room 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z It’s a conceit that “The Memory Police” chillingly inverts, by making two amnesiacs the protectors of a man whose mind is unimpaired. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z The pioneers in this pursuit are, perhaps unsurprisingly, the smaller, scrappier outlets, which are proving better equipped to usher the conceits of interactivity to market. Perspective | With playhouses dark, interactive theater online is lighting things up 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Its premise is a familiar country conceit: music about the power of music. Review: Randy Houser, No Slave to Bro Country 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z But his jokes rely on the conceit that society is on the same page about trans people as he is — Colbert may get it, Time may get it, some people on the Internet get it. Why “The Colbert Report’s” segment on sex reassignment surgery falls flat 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z A great advantage of the time-loop conceit is that it can power many kinds of movies: rom-com, heist, thriller, life lesson. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Playing with a conceit borrowed from theoretical physics — the hotly contested “multiverse” hypothesis — “Spider-Verse” proposes a multiplicity of web-slingers from different dimensions, all of whom converge thanks to disruption in the space-time continuum. ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Review: A Fresh Take on a Venerable Hero 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Some conceits, though, are egregiously heavy-handed, such the use of a narrator who, in the manner of Che Guevara in “Evita,” offers superfluous commentary. A Cuban ‘Carmen’ with a shortage of sizzle 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z The Musical” rests a little too smugly on the sheer absurdity of its conceit, which is itself a little shopworn at this point. | 'Silence! The Musical': The Knives, and Forks, Are Out 2011-07-12T02:01:43Z In an amusing touch, he’s portrayed by a human actor, Zach Kononov, not a puppet, adding a layer of absurdity to this already absurd conceit. Review: The Golden Girls, Back Again as Wisecracking Puppets 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z It was the violent breakup of Yugoslavia that Falls used as his conceit. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ But the conceit falls apart when you replace mental illness with something physical. Please Stop Merchandising Mental Illness 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z They each reach conclusions of their own while feeding into a grand central conceit about the way those desiring power destroy the thing they crave. Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-11T13:22:00Z This opening conceit dissolves quickly and the early pages of Pang’s book race through Sun’s childhood and, at the same time, survey decades of Chinese history in passages that are sometimes sweeping and reductive. The Alarming Human Toll of Cheap Stuff ‘Made in China’ 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z This conceit engages both children and adults at first. Imagination Stage’s ‘Night Fairy’ enchants at times, but it could use a bit more magic In the first stanza, Traherne writes an apologia for the "sweet mistake" on which the poem elaborates: a mistake which, of course, is a conceit, deliberately plotted. Poem of the week: 'Shadows in the Water' by Thomas Traherne 2010-12-20T10:13:09Z Their “baby” is a sack of flour named Joan, who accompanies them on a wild road trip to California, providing commentary in Danielle’s voice and also through an amusing visual conceit. | 'Dirty Girl': ?Dirty Girl,? Starring Juno Temple and Jeremy Dozier - Review 2011-10-06T21:14:14Z This dynamic is embedded in the deathbed conceit. “Valerie” Is an Extraordinary Love Letter to a Radical Feminist 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The conceit is unexceptional in itself, the real surprise these days being the rare “Hamlet” brave enough to tackle the piece in Elizabethan garb. Theater Review: Hamlet in a T-Shirt 2010-10-12T11:19:00Z But this flimsy conceit enables the film to jump back in time, to tell the story of how a teenager became so confident in her ability to take care of herself. ‘Wildflower’ Review: The Parents Are All Right 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z So the pair came up with the forbidden-romance conceit, which they believed would allow them to put bitter truths in a candy coating. 'Beyond the Horizon' healing wounds of a divided Germany with pop rock 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z This is especially true for both Birdman and Boyhood — films that commit to their conceits in a way that other movies haven’t before. Are the Oscar Frontrunners Overrated Gimmicks? 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z The fictional conceit is that the Earth exudes a substance called exotic matter, perhaps the most literal name for a science-fiction element since “Avatar” gave us “unobtanium.” Ingress, a Mobile Game From Google 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Seemingly banal in its conceit, wildly startling in its execution, it tracks a film crew that, like a detective squad, investigates what became of an ordinary man. Movie Review: ‘A Man Vanishes,’ Directed by Shohei Imamura 2012-11-14T22:56:23Z Does the story work in the exhibition, as more than a cerebral conceit? Dream Dialogue Between Schiaparelli and Prada 2012-05-07T11:30:28Z A fine supporting cast also helps to sell the conceit. Review: In ‘River,’ Stellan Skarsgard Is a Cop Searching for Answers 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Friedlander, however, weaves it throughout his entire act and even organizes his carefully wrought jokes around interactive conceits. Critic’s Notebook: Judah Friedlander’s Stand-up Comedy 2012-09-05T22:20:35Z This condition may seem like a conceit on Ms. Lopez’s part. Dance Review: Morphoses Performing at Jacob’s Pillow 2012-06-29T21:29:09Z This scene is a welcome rejection of one of the central conceits of “Jessica Jones”: everyone inevitably serves as a foil for the title character. ‘Jessica Jones’ Episode 7: Fear and Self-Loathing 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z In The Sewing Machine, a one-woman show at the Assembly George Square, the conceit of Rubies in the Attic was reversed. Edinburgh fringe theatre roundup 2012-08-11T23:05:48Z But the element of paranoia is just as important as that of conceit. Tweets from underground: How Dostoevsky anticipated social media 2014-03-18T12:00:00Z It is a wild and ambitious conceit, but it succeeds because of the exuberance of the aswang’s voice and the richness of the details. Young Women and Their ‘Unfinished Business’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z But despite a structural conceit that establishes the action as an exercise in deterministic tragedy, the show, directed by Joe Mantegna and marred by a mawkish underscore, lacks propulsive energy. Review: Lenny Bruce’s Shifting Legacy, in ‘I’m Not a Comedian’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z That conceit, which adds a bit of comeuppance to celebrity, may suit today’s more populist mood. The TV Watch: ‘American Idol,’ at 13, Is Trying to Stay Relevant 2014-01-29T22:14:53Z As a conceit, it’s brilliant; but Linklater’s humour and humanity turn it into one of the great movies of the 21st century. Richard Linklater: ‘someone’s living back there, and he’s murdered somebody’ 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z Critics have said the show’s core conceit — an imaginary news team covering actual events of the recent past — robs the series of drama, but that doesn’t have to be the case. Will McAvoy, you’re so smart! 2012-07-23T18:30:00Z Twenty years later, the conceit is so familiar it’s frequently parodied on “Saturday Night Live” and has spawned numerous spinoff shows. Perspective | The 20 defining moments of 20 years of ‘The Bachelor’ 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z If the convoluted history and corresponding formal conceits are difficult to absorb, that is part of the point. ‘The Year of the Discovery’ Review: Remembering Tumult in Spain 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z It’s a conceit well suited to noir, with its layers of surveillance, duplicity and doubling. Review: ‘Helen Lawrence’ Has Cops, Blondes, Hustlers and, of Course, a Corpse 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z What starts out as a quirky conceit rapidly devolves into an annoying tic. Why Are Jews Funny? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Their jail scenes, by the way, abandon the minstrel-show conceit to adopt the lingo of prison and mean-streets movies from the 1930s, though I’m assuming this isn’t intentional. Theater Review | 'The Scottsboro Boys': Kander and Ebb Revisit an Infamous Case 2010-03-11T05:17:00Z The conceit is a good match for the script’s bourbon-and-pooltable lyricism, which reaches its acme in some of China’s remarks. A winningly intense ‘El Paso Blue’ at GALA Hispanic Theatre 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z One of the film’s conceits is that the actions of Mr. Morano and his colleagues can be con games and magic tricks. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The basic conceit of the show is that ant-like aliens are taking over people’s brains. Tony Shalhoub gets into the “BrainDead” politician’s mind: “Everyone is digging in their heels” 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Behind its grinding gears and lurid conceits, we hear the sound of a culture settling in for the long haul, guided by voices and staking its claim. Wieland; Or, the Transformation ??an American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z Mr. Hill stumbled on the conceit in the late 1970s, when he was working in England as a freelance illustrator. Eric Hill, writer and illustrator of ‘Where’s Spot?’ and other children’s classics, dies That idea extends to the central comic conceits of the film — a mash-up of 21st century sensibilities with Old West clichés. 'A Million Ways to Die in the West' shoots self in foot 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z It was, of course, something of a conceit. A Chance to Bond on a Perilous Hiking Trail in Iceland 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Given all this, it’s not a long walk to the conceit of “Chef,” which suggests that small can be not only beautiful, but also better for the soul. Jon Favreau Serves Up a Smaller Film, ‘Chef’ 2014-04-25T16:51:47Z But any mind-bending conceit or special effect pales before Ali’s incredibly fine-tuned talents. ‘Swan Song’ Review: Second Life 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Her most striking conceit is to show the writers in separate but parallel interviews with David Frost. ‘Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation’ Review: Friendship in Focus 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z One of the stranger conceits of “Hello Goodbye Hello” is that it describes 101 meetings and expends exactly 1,001 words on each one, resulting in a work that is 101,101 words long. Books of The Times: ‘Hello Goodbye Hello,’ by Craig Brown 2012-08-05T20:56:23Z But what might have been a snappy short is interminable at feature length, the mayhem-in-suburbia conceit generating few laughs as it stomps along. 'Life After Beth' suffers a slow comedic death from repetition 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Bhardwaj understands the built-in problem with the conceit — at one point, a title card announces there are only four more husbands to go — but can’t really overcome it, though he does some amusing things. | '7 Khoon Maaf': A Black Widow Tale 2011-02-19T00:14:13Z That’s the conceit behind this Christmas special, which pays tribute to holiday variety shows of the past hosted by Bing Crosby, Johnny Cash and the Carpenters. What’s on TV Sunday: Kacey Musgraves’s Christmas Show and ‘Apollo 11’ 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z The work featured a stylish woman smooshing her face into bread — the conceit, apparently, that viewers who crave warm doughiness against their flesh will derive vicarious joy watching her. ASMR videos are edgy, unnerving and almost avant-garde. Is it time to consider them art? 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The dazzling conceit that defines Caroline’s workplace, a basement of anthropomorphic appliances, remains thrilling. Perspective | In words and music, New York theaters take aim at an America at war with itself 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Suddenly, the familiar conceit of teens irritated at their inept parents takes on deadly connotations. Review | Lydia Millet’s ‘A Children’s Bible’ is a blistering classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z That the performers are also dancers is evident in the impressive physical control required for the production’s conceit: most of the work unfolds in slow motion. Dance Review: ?Last Touch First? at the Joyce Theater 2012-04-11T21:32:21Z And, in this later piece, Huff pokes much meta-fun at his own conceits, not least when he conjures up a device that has the protagonist of a one-character show losing her voice. 'The Detective's Wife' probes the limits of protection 2011-06-02T19:05:39Z It’s an elegant conceit, and powerful in its way. In Chicago, Overlooked Achievements by L.G.B.T.Q. Artists 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z How long can this conceit be reasonably sustained before it starts to fade? Credit's due when the final credits roll on 'The Newsroom' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The conceit was a tough sell at first. Gillian Flynn Takes Her Paranoia to Television 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Jeunet pushes the simplicity of his influences a bit too far in the direction of simple-mindedness, partly by allowing himself to be distracted by the clever cuteness of his own conceits. | 'Micmacs': In Jean-Pierre Jeunet?s Work, Misfits Battle Arms Manufacturers 2010-05-27T22:46:00Z The “Apocalypse” of the title is a vague and compelling creative conceit: everything is ending, so why not make a towering savory confection of smoked whitefish salad garlanded with pastry swans? The Best Food Books of 2018 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Add to that, the conceit that we merge business and personal lives completely. How to Say ‘No’ This Thanksgiving 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The biggest conceit that we indulged in was how quickly the vaccine was found — we compressed that timeline greatly, especially given what was technologically possible then. Steven Soderbergh and Amy Seimetz Made the Pandemic Movies of the Moment 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z The conceit emphasized the show’s overarching theme: women perceiving or envisioning themselves — often self-consciously, as if from the outside — in the context of a discordant world. A fever dream come to life in ‘Poor People’s TV Room’ 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Written and directed by Leigh Whannell, this shrewd, cleverly updated version plays with the different meanings of “romance” by fusing the basic conceit from Wells’s uncanny tale with the fallout of an abusive romantic relationship. ‘The Invisible Man’ Review: Gaslight Nation, Domestic Edition 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, because this movie was released in theaters, a conceit that could have been charming instead comes across as crass. “Once Upon a Deadpool”: A cynical cash grab that’s still too adult for kids 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z A crucial part of “Birdman’s” conceit was that it looked as if it were filmed in one looonnng shot and, to no one’s surprise, it didn’t get a best editing nomination. Oscar Ballots in, Best Picture Seems to Narrow to ‘Boyhood’ vs. ‘Birdman’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Could, that is, if someone realizes before it's too late that Judd Hirsch is standing right there with one of the more brilliant character conceits in television history. ABC's 'Forever' compelling, but predictability may limit life 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z The show’s conceit as a singing competition would seem to encourage lunges for the spotlight. Why the Tonys Need an Award for Best Ensemble 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Throughout the course of eight years, the sitcom’s conceits that they’re constantly being filmed by a crew of documentarians, who will apparently, finally be revealed in season nine. Five things we learned from “The Office” 2012-08-27T20:43:00Z Posner’s ambitious, if pretentious, play manages it a bit better through an almost Spartan-level commitment to its conceit, from script to stage. ‘Seagull’ Review: Blurring the Lines of Fiction 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Set mostly in Singapore, the movie leans into the conceit of its title, showing off palatial estates, opulent outfits and a customized cruise ship in a way that detractors said perpetuated old model-minority myths. For Asian American Actors, Playing a Hot Mess Is Liberating 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Some of the conceits, such as a mystical theory that Annette’s soul will remain near the house for 11 months, or the gloomy score, seem precious or overwrought. Review: In ‘306 Hollywood,’ an Excavation — at Grandma’s House 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The tune may be nothing to write home about, but the conceit is original: "If I'm gonna die at least I shot the mayor!" Readers recommend: songs with jokes 2010-08-26T23:02:00Z The design conceit is pervasive: from the earsplitting Gare de Lyon acoustics right down to red business cards punched like train tickets. A luxurious trip through RN74's French cuisine 2011-09-23T00:40:35Z Mr. Simon acknowledged that having twin characters, portrayed by the same actor, might seem like some Janus-faced conceit, but this was fact. ‘The Deuce’ Recalls Sex and Sleaze in 1970s Times Square 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z As a conceit, that already has tension built in. Margin Call Director J.C. Chandor on VOD and the Awards Season Hustle 2011-12-20T16:15:11Z Users shared scenes out of context with a line or two of explanation, and it proved more than enough for people to understand the conceit and get hyped. Their Show Flew Under the Radar. TikTok Blew It Up. 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z "More conceit than conscience" would be my diagnosis. Debate: have modern opera singers got the wrong attitude? 2013-03-16T18:00:02Z Yet Welles was in steady pursuit of a daring conceit: a film as much improvised as scripted, reflecting the circumstances in which it gestated, a heightened version of Hollywood reality. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z There’s a brilliant conceit at the core of Watch Dogs, a vision of a game you might call Grand Theft Anonymous, in which the heroes and villains wield smartphones instead of sniper rifles. ‘Watch Dogs,’ an Adventure Game From Ubisoft 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z One of our conceits has been to imagine ourselves as neutral, objective, and value-free. White Writer 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z “Friend of Mine,” though, upends house’s central emotional conceit. DJ Dodger Stadium: House music and 'the hypnotic loneliness of L.A.' 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Both songs borrow a seasons-turning conceit, full of branches and breezes, awakening and renewal. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z If anything, having to set up the conceit of a character looking into the past gets the novel off to a slow start. ‘Once You Break a Knuckle,’ by D. W. Wilson, and More 2014-01-29T22:31:57Z The movie’s charms are limited by what comes to feel like a coddling conceit. ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ Review: Forrest Gump in India 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z In a reversal of this conceit, Taraji P. Henson will be starring in “What Men Want,” scheduled to reach theaters on Jan. 11. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Road’ and ‘Trolls: The Beat Goes On’ 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Now as for that conceit of Central Park: Sure, why not? Purcell’s ‘The Fairy Queen’ Reset in New York 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z This poem contains many of the cleverest metaphysical conceits: witness "our vegetable love" or those trying worms. John Stammers's top 10 love poems 2011-02-09T10:26:17Z The first clever conceit of this movie is that it, too, is a product of that colony, one with a lesson. ‘The Wolf House’ Review: A Different Kind of Quarantine 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z “That initial conceit for the canvas — that’s what got me,” he said. Meet the man who has finally explained O.J. Simpson to the world 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z It's a promising enough conceit - a stressed, untrustworthy but inherently decent guy trying to play the role-model - but the day takes awkward, implausible turns, jumping from violence to stone-skipping in the harbor. Review: Naturalism of 'LUV' beset by cliches 2013-01-16T03:31:08Z The conceit is that the disgraced anchor has been invited to cover the absence of the regular presenter of a One Show-style magazine programme. ‘We've had a love-hate relationship’: Steve Coogan on bringing Alan Partridge back to the BBC 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z But, while these performers will never have to risk the sniggers of the crew by asking to be addressed in character, they may stand accused of a different kind of conceit. Simon Amstell, Larry David and the rise of the 'sim-com' 2010-08-29T20:30:00Z This rather quaint and charming conceit bespoke warmth and intimacy, and thus screamed “woman” to me. Perspective | A lesson in journalism: Sometimes you’re Sherlock, sometimes you’re Watson 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z As far as “Key And Peele” sketches go, it’s almost restrained: This is a show characterized by a conceit being stretched and stretched to the point of absurd oblivion. Gallows humor in the age of #BlackLivesMatter: “Key & Peele” returns and “Why? with Hannibal Buress” premieres, not a moment too soon 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z “Operation Varsity Blues” is part of a trend in documentary filmmaking, a discipline that has historically frowned upon devices like reenactments, dramatizations and other conceits borrowed from narrative fiction. Perspective | Actors in documentaries used to be taboo. Now they’re the stars. 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z You are lured in with an overused museological conceit: you are treated as a mobster “under suspicion.” Museum Review: Mob Museum Opens in Las Vegas 2012-02-14T00:58:51Z She is played, with admirable daring and conviction, by Amanda Seyfried, who does what she can to turn a dubious conceit into something more credible. Movie Review | 'Chloe': Amanda Seyfried Goes on an Undercover Mission 2010-03-26T00:40:00Z The show-within-a-show conceit can get irritating pretty fast, making a museum exhibition feel like an erratic art fair rather than a considered look at the art of an age. 'Made in L.A.' best in show: 5 must-see pieces at the Hammer biennial 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z As singer, songwriter and producer, he runs efficiently through short-order metaphors and conceits, and, more cautiously, through styles. Review: R. Kelly’s New Album, ‘The Buffet,’ Offers Sex and Sentiment 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Be Thankful For The Job If you ask me, ego is a bad word, and conceit doesn’t equal confident. 10 Ways You Can Be More Confident at Work 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Marquis’s conceit of a keyboard-crunching roach let him dissolve writer’s block and meet deadline while amusing the readers of his newspaper column from 1916 and into the 1930s. Books of The Times: Poems by Bao Phi, Roberto Bola?o and Simon Armitage ? Review 2011-12-19T22:52:42Z Fiennes shows us the conceit, followed by the querulous selfishness, with which Göth briefly wrestles with the idea that he might actually want to be good. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z The more Miller tries to elaborate on her conceit, the less convincing it is. Jacob's Folly by Rebecca Miller – review 2013-07-25T09:00:00Z It’s a conceit, the creative team allows, that provides for a more fitting segue to the musical’s tear-streaked 11 o’clock number, “I Will Never Leave You.” At Kennedy Center, ‘Side Show’ takes another turn around the midway The early 1970s were prog-rock’s heyday, particularly in Britain, where bands like Genesis, King Crimson and Yes were constructing suite-length songs and unveiling elaborate conceits. After Half a Century, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ Still Reverberates 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Instead he seeks to create a more collusive enticement in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, made explicit with the conceit of a self-help guide. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid – review 2013-04-21T06:00:29Z In 2019, she did do Lear on Broadway, in a reconceived production tricked out with an abundance of postmodern conceits that might have smothered a less assertive star. Glenda Jackson, an Unnervingly Energizing Presence at Every Age 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Well, that is one of the central conceits of "Sponge Out of Water," putting the real world, real people and real villains in the mix, albeit as reimagined through the SpongeBob prism. 'SpongeBob' ventures ashore with mixed results 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z It turns a collection of what might otherwise feel like a set of weightless conceits into something more engaged, making clear that Saunders, like all satirists, is also a moralist. Tenth of December by George Saunders – review 2013-01-03T16:10:01Z I’ve spoken of his skill with metaphor; here it’s displayed on every page, not just in grand conceits like the prison but in descriptions and turns of phrase tucked away in the humblest of places. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 3: Little Dorrit 2012-02-03T18:42:02Z It is the conceit of this final book in the trilogy that Markovits has been merely the editor and literary midwife of these Byronic fictions. Childish Loves by Benjamin Markovits ? review 2011-08-26T09:40:01Z He’s dreaming of a “Black Radio 3” with a slightly new conceit: featured producers, not vocalists, recorded without the Experiment. A Month of Robert Glasper’s Experiments at the Blue Note 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z About halfway through Elinor Lipman’s latest comic novel, “Good Riddance,” a central conceit suddenly disappears when an object that fueled tension between two main characters is destroyed. Review | A posthumous gift sets a farcical plot in motion in ‘Good Riddance’ 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z At first Mr. Thomas hammers the bluff conceit so hard that he risks sounding forced and facile. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z Overproduced and undernourishing, the show is a mishmash of dispiriting conceits, revolving around an unhappy young man and an abused pachyderm. Perspective | In London, the shows go on — but apathy is unmasked 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The conceit for this collection was for each contributing writer to compose a story featuring a “warrior.” James Rollins: By the Book 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z It’s a collection of bottles meant to satisfy the title’s conceit and results in a frustrating reading experience. If Tea Isn’t Your Cuppa, How About Beer, Wine or Coffee? 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z It begins with the author claiming reluctance to start work because he feels unready: his poetic garlands have no ripe fruit, only "berries harsh and crude" I don't think this is just a conceit. Poem of the week: Lycidas by John Milton 2010-09-06T15:30:00Z Her dragon bowl follows the same conceit, combining ingredients in a spectrum of flavors and hues. How to Build a Pretty Macrobiotic Meal Like a Jewelry Designer 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z And then there’s the popularity of meta story structures — narrative conceits that help to frame the tale. The Story So Far: Fiction Podcasts Take Their Next Steps 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z It made me wonder if she really needs the big-time conceits. In This Story Collection, the Dead Are Served Up Hot-Pot Style 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z The play’s conceit feeds from this tension, between empathy and dispassionate scrutiny. Review: A Bracing Trial by Zoom in ‘State vs. Natasha Banina’ 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Mr Leonard’s conceit works because the stories of the lanternes are the story of the Tour in microcosm. It’s the taking part that counts 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Given the movie's found-footage conceit, it's no spoiler to report that things get pretty hairy before it's all said and done. Drugs and the devil spice up 'Inner Demons' 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z This may sound foolishly ambitious, but the heart of Mr Hidalgo’s conceit is the way he defines information: it is not facts and the like, but physical order. Multiplier effects 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Still, first-time feature director Dave Green keeps things moving so swiftly — at times too swiftly — it helps patch over some of the film's narrative chasms as well as the fuzziness of its found-footage conceit. 'Earth to Echo,' an 'E.T.' knockoff, is pleasantly diverting 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z In a book that skillfully combines culinary history with reports from some of the city’s most tasteful arrondissements, he adopts the conceit of a historian’s walking tour, conflating past with present in gorgeous style. France’s Love Affair With Food 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The conceit concerns Alexander the Great, who, having sacked the Persian capital of Persepolis, is partying with his lover, Thaïs. L.A. Master Chorale's 'Alexander's Feast' is a treat for the ears and eyes 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z It was when a handgun began being brandished, mostly at the head of the cowering Jerome, sometimes begging for his life, that my patience with the conceit of “Modern Terrorism” began to wear thin. Theater Review: ‘Modern Terrorism,’ by Jon Kern, at the Second Stage Theater 2012-10-18T21:50:45Z His holiday album, “Socks,” is a collection of original songs with startlingly original conceits. Holiday Music for the Joyful, the Lonely and the Skeptical 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The conceit of the programme was that for half a century Attenborough has wondered about the egg's origins and the fate of the bird that laid it. Rewind TV: Jamie's Dream School; Attenborough and the Giant Egg; The Promise 2011-03-06T00:09:51Z The time-loop conceit allows the show to explore its themes without forcing viewers to confront the misery and degradation of serious addiction. Stuck on repeat: what is Netflix’s Russian Doll actually about? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Importantly, Niebuhr saw these conceits as having historical, not theological, causes. Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now 2011-07-21T11:45:29Z There was no way to predict how audiences would respond to the conceit of a real-time countdown until Fox tried it with “24.” Television Review: Two Lives, Two Loves, One Con Man 2010-09-19T17:08:00Z But most television shows offer the conceit of characters inhabiting their own milieus. Dear France: I'm sorry about "Emily in Paris" 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z But this time the conceit is very different. ‘Lightyear’ Opens at No. 2, as ‘Jurassic World’ Holds Strong 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z But “Good Goes the Bye” suffers from a truly embarrassing lyrical conceit. Review: Kelly Clarkson's 'Piece By Piece' Is a Victory Lap 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z As for the show’s conceit, the playwright, Dave Harris, borrows from both “Waiting for Godot” and John Hughes’s classic portrait of detained and misunderstood youth, “The Breakfast Club.” Review: In ‘Exception to the Rule,’ Detention Is Sinister 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Completing the list of challenges takes both skill and timing, and the game is finished before its pleasing, if limited, conceit gets old. The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z But with all its constructions and conceits, it also keeps a certain emotional distance. ‘Evermore,’ Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ Sequel, Is a Journey Deeper Inward 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z With its straight-man-in-drag conceit, and quips flying like shuttlecocks between Tracy and Rexy, the play sometimes assumes the artificial air of a sitcom. Review: ‘The Legend of Georgia McBride,’ From Elvis Impersonator to Drag Queen 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Bokenkamp acknowledged “that question is central to the conceit of the show” but said they wouldn’t provide an answer right then. ‘Blacklist’ fans get black fedoras at Comic-Con 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z The conceit visually articulates a metaphor: Despite conviction and courage, the play’s characters are foundering for lack of empathy. Standout plays at this year’s Contemporary American Theater Festival: The list 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z The conceit of Obamacare’s advocates is that the law is unpopular because voters are ignorant of its benefits. Government Produces Slide Show to Help Sell Obamacare: 'Hello, My Name is XXX' 2012-05-02T17:04:22Z By contrast, the Rio 65 Trio’s music, in its time and now, has a beautiful and limited conceit. Review: The Rio 65 Trio Resurrects the Barreling Sounds of a Samba-Jazz Band 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Unreliability is a fascinating and tricky conceit for novelists and filmmakers. Review: It’s Called ‘Life Itself,’ and Yet Everyone’s Dead 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z This is a persistent conceit in the literature of power, one that Larraín, wielding his camera like a rapier and Jonny Greenwood’s lacerating score like a stiletto, leaves in tatters. ‘Spencer’ Review: Prisoner of the House of Windsor 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The adverb "sometimes" makes us wait, and the conceit of the winds whistling of "joy or pain" makes us wait longer. Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z Whereas most improv gets laughs through broad characters and dizzying plot twists, these companies delight in nothing more than a comic conceit about grammar or pronunciation. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The physical flammability of film itself is deployed as a weapon, neatly bringing Bowie’s conceit—“I’ve been putting out fire with gasoline”—to fruition. David Bowie in the Movies 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z It functions very effectively, if you go with the romantic conceit. Sting's former self is at the center of 'Last Ship' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The film's central conceit, that the middle-aged would be welcome at Google, might also provoke some laughter in the Bay area. The Internship: how cinema sold its soul – but didn't get paid 2013-07-01T14:45:37Z Herr Reichard's comment is that instead of boundless admiration the negroes revealed a stupid exaggerated idea of their own importance and a conceit that found everything ridiculous. From the archive, 25 June 1889: Berlin leaves African visitors cold 2012-06-25T06:30:00Z That conceit worked, but in Anlee Chang’s solo, “Flame,” the sparks she struck off her costume overwhelmed the dance. Dance Review: Trey McIntyre Project and Korean Dancers at BAM 2012-11-15T23:01:15Z Haneke has become virtually the founding father of an icily detached ordeal cinema, a pitiless vivisection of the west’s conceit, hypocrisy and cruelty. From Hidden to In the Mood for Love: why the 2000s are my favourite film decade | Peter Bradshaw 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The conceit is to make this familiar ticking-time-bomb plot take place on computer screens. ‘Zero Contact’ Review: A Token of the Times 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z In any case, the sense of competition is essential—the movie fruitfully exploits the game-day conceit of the homecoming theme. Beyoncé’s “Homecoming” Is a Total Synthesis of the Pop Arts 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z It's hard to keep track of The Affair's central conceit, impossible to identify even the vaguest aspects of a buldingsroman of any kind. ‘The Affair’ Season 3, Episode 8: People See What They Want to See 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Maybe it's because I find the whole conceit of the book so condescending, as if it were only women who aren't able to tell when they're getting the brush off. Ensemble romantic comedies and why they must be destroyed 2011-03-16T19:17:00Z There are a few compromises with this conceit. Cirque bugs out extravagantly with 'Ovo' 2011-07-01T07:00:00Z Binding “The Lego Movie” together is a “Matrix”-like conceit that turns the whole thing into an allegory about the nature of creativity and the meaning of amusement. Movie Review: ‘The Lego Movie’ Toys With Thinking Outside the Manual 2014-02-06T13:00:01Z The conceit is that this therapist experiences his own sessions as a kind of light hallucination, in which the whole class is being submerged in an imaginary ocean as he puts them under. The Top 10 Moments in Reading in 2011 2011-12-28T18:53:18Z He raises significant questions about the conceits of Alaska's commercial pollock fleet, but acknowledges that it is, when compared to other white fish grounds, a relatively well-managed fishery. 'Four Fish': Author Paul Greenberg on saving the world's wild seafood 2010-08-04T23:05:00Z Seeded through the film, it's a conceit that movie buffs will likely enjoy. Review: Suave yet with comic book energy, 'Kingsman' goes spying 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The weirdest thing about it is the conceit, organized chapter-by-chapter, that everything wonderful in life is Southern: Perspective | Reese Witherspoon is selling frilly Southern womanhood, and I’ve been sucked in, y’all 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z There is, of course, something reassuring in the conceit that one’s own group of parents is superior to another group of parents. Motherlode Blog: Are Poor Parents Poorer at Parenting? 2011-09-20T16:36:51Z The narrative conceit of this novel is deceptively simple: Chronology is inverted. A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z And the shudders of sublimity only grow more intense as Mr. Scott elegantly lays out a series of overlapping conceits. Movie Review: ‘Prometheus,’ by Ridley Scott, With Noomi Rapace 2012-06-07T12:44:28Z The conceit is that a group of children in 1968 stumble on a book of, well, scary stories, that come to life. Summer Movies 2019: Here’s What’s Coming Soon to Theaters 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z As weird as the story is, it’s been made all the stranger by the decision to turn it into a metaphor about fascism, a conceit that is as politically incoherent as it is unfortunately timed. ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ Review: Puppets and Power 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z “Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons,” Iago asserts, ones that “burn like the mines of sulfur.” ‘Winter Sleep,’ a Turkish Film Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z It's a recurring theme: no florid lyrical conceits, but an appealingly wavering vocal that still hits its marks. Best Coast – review 2012-06-20T09:22:24Z The conceit, to paraphrase one character, is that grad school is for people who never moved on from high school. Review: ‘L for Leisure,’ Vignettes of Graduate Students on Vacation 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The structure of the story, the conceit of the score and the tone. After 36 years, ‘Little Shop,’ a ‘close to perfect’ musical, comes to the Kennedy Center 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z While her conceits varied, Case still had a recognizable, unified style. The Worse Things Get…: Neko Case’s Cathartic New Album 2013-09-06T15:46:23Z The show gets plenty of mileage from its surburbanites-gone-wild conceit, as when Ruby chooses the location for a rendezvous: “They always do the drop-off at a park on ‘Law & Order.’” Review: ‘Good Girls’ Offers Equal Time for Antiheroines 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z But in Seattle writer West's promising conceit, we view the journey from the perspective of capable black porters — who are, alas, still second-class citizens. 'Pullman Porter Blues' carries pungent blues and heavy melodrama 2012-10-05T20:06:04Z As much as that is a conceit, that really ignited me. Miranda July: 'I'm always disappointing my dad politically' 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z The conceit worked better in the British original, which was more arch and satirical and closer in spirit to “Kind Hearts and Coronets.” The TV Watch: ‘House of Cards’ Returns, With More Dark Scheming 2014-02-13T13:00:01Z But while it’s a conceit, in the hands of Murakami, it’s also the means to inspiring ends, thanks to its memorable voices — including a talking monkey who walks into a spa. 10 books to read in April 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z But it’s precisely their unassuming guise that allowed them, by osmosis rather than disruption, to diffuse their modernist conceits throughout the literary field, ensuring their widespread adoption. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Twenty years on, the brilliance of Joss Whedon’s funny, tragic seven-season synthesis of most film and TV genres, literary conceits and pop cultural tropes remains undimmed. Buffy the Vampire Slayer at 20: the thrilling, brilliant birth of TV as art 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Colman Domingo, whose “Scottsboro” roles include a racist white sheriff, a vicious guard and an anti-Semitic attorney general, said that when he learned of the minstrel conceit, “my first reaction was, ‘Really?’ ” New Musicals That Strike a Somber Chord 2010-03-02T22:40:00Z However, not all works in the show follow this conceit: works such as Found in Sizes bestow nothing in the way of an underlying theoretical message to even the most hopeful of viewers. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z The two partially disrobe at the end of the show, sacrificing some dignity but gamely carrying their conceits all the way. SketchFest: Comedy without borders 2011-01-10T06:00:00Z That’s a big problem in a show that, more than the others, depends on our buying an unlikely conceit that’s presented as fact. Review: John Leguizamo Goes for Easy Laughs in ‘Latin History’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Brave in its title and subtitles; unusual in its central conceit. Creation: The Origin of Life; The Future of Life, by Adam Rutherford – review 2013-04-06T14:00:01Z “Under the Silver Lake” is less a cinematic folly than a category mistake, taking the sterility of its own imaginative conceits for a metaphysical condition. ‘Under the Silver Lake’ Review: Andrew Garfield Gets Lost in a Haze of Pop-Culture Allusions 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z The conceit runs the risk of appearing as little more than sketch comedy, but Bodomo avoids that pitfall, pushing the subject to daring extremes that leave comedy far behind. The Best Movies I Saw at SXSW 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z But the show at Carnegie was less about satirizing this stereotype, and more about demonstrating it: The sketch’s conceit is a showcase of all the capabilities of a hypothetical Yuja Wang clone. Was Yuja Wang’s Concert Satirical or Offensive? It’s Complicated 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Stoppard’s conceit takes the critics’ involvement in their work to Pirandellian lengths. Playwrights get last word in delightful ‘Critic’ and ‘Real Inspector Hound’ 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Expanded by the writer-director Jacob Chase from a short, “Come Play” feels secondhand in its overarching conceit, its scare tactics and even its sentimentality. ‘Come Play’ Review: Alexa, Find Me a Derivative Thriller 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Affecting a not-entirely-convincing working-class London accent, Lane gamely tries to make hay of the tedious bluster of Mac’s conceit, about the bloody mess we’re all now in, and how we deal with the aftermath. Review | Nathan Lane and Adam Driver are both starring on Broadway. Only one of them gives us a good time. 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z Most of us are used to seeing cultural history explored through a particular conceit. Popcast: Dave Grohl's 'Sonic Highways' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z There was comic genius in the 1995 film The Brady Bunch Movie, which had the brilliant conceit of maintaining the characters’ 1970s fashions, behaviour and vocabulary in the 1990s world. Rise of the reboots gives new life to Rocky and Ghostbusters 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z For it has been a conceit of some historians to make a connection between seemingly unconnected phenomena, like the consumption of tea and the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan. The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or Its Food 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z This nifty conceit is one of the many inspired quirks that imbue “Everybody Loves Jeanne” with wit and charm, without undercutting its more serious themes. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Continuing an amusing conceit he began in his first book, he ends each chapter with the recipe for a dish that a character has eaten in the preceding pages. Review | Only one sexy couple can stop a Russian spy from taking over the CIA 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z “Wrecking Ball,” written from the first-person point of view of the old Giants Stadium, turns a conceit into a homily into a hoot. Music: Pareles and Caramanica on Springsteen?s ?Wrecking Ball? 2012-03-02T21:32:35Z Almost every section features a short observation accompanied by a slightly obscure image, a technique that runs counter to the overall conceit of leaving things to one’s imagination. Peter Mendelsund releases two books, including one that’s worth your time But the conceit quickly gives way to redundancy and triteness, and we’re left trying to shake the image of Stephen Covey wearing a leather tunic with a feather in his cap. Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The dead dog is the road trip conceit. ‘Mitch, Please!’ Tours Kentucky and Roasts a Senator 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The very idea of using mirrors, an intrinsically domestic surface, in nature is a daring conceit that pays off. The Season's Most Captivating Outdoor Sculpture From Carol Bove, Olaf Breuning, And More 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Mourning rituals, whatever the religion, serve as handy conceits to force a family to spend time together, to frame a movie. 'This Is Where I Leave You' is a fractious family affair 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z But the 2010 American Blues edition delivers all you could possibly want from this conceit. 'It's A Wonderful Life' is a warm tradition 2010-12-14T06:00:00Z The conceit is so simple: sliced dill pickles and pepperoni as pizza toppings. From Chili to the Underground Railroad, Cincinnati on a Budget 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z It’s a halfway-effective conceit, showcasing his skill at pacing and crosscutting and relieving some of the claustrophobia of the tense indoor scenes in Entebbe and Tel Aviv. Review: ‘7 Days in Entebbe’ Revisits a Notorious Hijacking 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z That seemed to be the message of Umit Benan’s breakout show, the first runway presentation for this designer, whose thematic conceit was a period “after the war.” Fashion Review: Italian Men?s Fashion Week Shows in Milan Go Conservative 2012-01-18T23:53:35Z The exterior of San Francisco’s Beth Sholom synagogue is an ark, the bearer of community, but this formal conceit creates a sanctuary with steeply banked sides, unsuited to young, old and disabled congregants. Book review: ‘Sacred Spaces,’ a report on Modernism in religious buildinghs 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z “Camp” tries to sound cleverer than its conceit, but the series is most appealing when it keeps in mind that everybody has a story to tell about that one special summer at sleep-away camp. Television Review: NBC’s ‘Camp’ Is as Much About the Grown-Ups as the Kids 2013-07-09T21:26:32Z Mr. Baumbach sticks with the short-story conceit throughout, but he uses it as both a guiding principle and a means to surprise. Review: Adam Sandler Is a Revelation in ‘The Meyerowitz Stories’ 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The loosely observed conceit of “Still Life in Lodz” is that certain objects bear passive witness to history. ‘Still Life in Lodz’ Review: A Painting Becomes a Window 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z The central conceit of the series is one that Martin nursed for many years. Why Are Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short Working Together? It’s a Mystery. 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z The sly novelty of this exchange is what sustains Amis' story: Few easy potshots are taken, despite the easily dismissible conceit. Martin Amis takes on Nazi love in 'Zone of Interest.' Really. 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Beats Music doesn't yet track menstrual cycles in its own playlist-generating conceit, called "The Sentence," which offers lists based on current activity, time of day and mood. Music streaming services unleash a torrent of digital playlists 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z “My Art” invests far too much in the conceit. Review: In ‘My Art,’ the Artist Laurie Simmons Plays an Artist 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z And as with the thematic conceit, it gives the impression of a story just beginning to unfold. New Music: The National, Mike Pride and Hush Point Release Albums 2013-05-20T21:46:46Z It’s a glibly satirical conceit, preying on the common fear that the technology we rely on will eventually turn on us. Analysis | From slasher villain to LGBT icon, ‘Child Play’s’ Chucky changes with the times 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Her loops lift Mr. Wu’s conceit of running in place. Dance Review: Cloud Gate 2 at the Joyce Theater 2012-02-11T01:06:45Z What doesn’t work as well is Mr. Colbert’s conceit that all four actors — male and female, black and white — are Coal. Review: ‘C.O.A.L (Confessions of a Liar)’ Opens at 59E59 Theaters 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z In fact, the book’s illustrations seem to undermine this very conceit. The Giving Tree at Fifty: Sadder Than I Remembered 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z After a while, cracks appear in the dramatic conceit, and the scenes in which our hero addresses the unseen ghost of his dead father in the back seat are more hokey than Hamlet-like. Movies 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The conceits of creative nonfiction seep into nearly every sentence. A Paralyzed Army Vet Walks Again. Is He Healed — or Is It a Hoax? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Vargas Llosa squeezes a fair amount of juice, and pulp, out of this conceit. A Pulpy New Novel and Juiceless Old Essays From Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z We hold up our novels like vanity mirrors, hoping to reflect our own dreams, conceits, and liberal aspirations. Endless fascination: in praise of novels without neat conclusions 2012-11-23T11:25:25Z What does remain, though, is the novel’s conceit that the white characters, with their troubled relationships and unloved children, carry burdens equal to those of the black characters. | The Help : Spanning Two Southern Worlds, Black and White 2011-08-09T20:24:20Z The fronded-surrogate device fits in with an overarching directorial conceit — that the Venus production is the work of protesters fired up by January’s Women’s March. Review | Women and age-old struggles take center stage in two local productions 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z That’s a shame, because embedded in “Midwestern Gothic” are intriguing conceits, one of them being the ways in which the musical twists our perceptions of horror archetypes — in particular, that of the naive, imperiled ingenue. Review | There will be blood in Signature’s ‘Midwestern Gothic’ 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Among the early adopters of this trend, probably no one is applying more verve to the conceit than the members of the Drunk Shakespeare Society. Review: ‘Drunk Shakespeare,’ Where the Tipsy and the Sober Take Liberties 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z What did the execution of that conceit, where you have this divide, what did that reveal to you? "Scenes from a Marriage" boss Hagai Levi on empowering the wife to leave: "I have to fight for her" 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z She gathers enough of each to make good on the story’s title and its magical realist conceit. Three New Story Collections Make Place a Protagonist 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Which is the show's central conceit and conflict. ABC's 'black-ish' gamely takes on racial identity 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z He makes decisions based not in Top 100 placement but in grand conceits, ignoring flimsy catchiness in favor of weighty aural pedestals packed with memory, history and echoes of souls and sounds past. Kendrick Lamar's 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z His character hasn't developed much beyond that conceit, but hopefully the imminent arrival of his sibling will bring out new dimensions. Modern Family: get up to speed with series four 2012-10-05T12:19:20Z Here the dominant conceit is Mr. Allen’s well-documented ambivalence about California and the industry that has often seemed ambivalent about him. Review: In ‘Café Society,’ Rearranging Old Preoccupations 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z “They tend to be a mixed bag of literary conceit, prevailing intellectual fashion and political bias.” Peniel E. Joseph on His Biography of Stokely Carmichael 2014-03-03T21:52:52Z Most daringly, Braben persuaded the comedians of the surreal conceit that, in behind-the-scenes sketches, they should be sharing not only a bungalow but a bed as well. How Eddie Braben saved Morecambe and Wise's careers 2013-05-21T14:52:31Z Directed by Rick Alverson, from a script he wrote with Robert Donne and Colm O’Leary, “The Comedy” is, with respect to its main character and principal conceit, an entirely conventional movie. Movie Review: ‘The Comedy,’ by Rick Alverson, Stars Tim Heidecker 2012-11-16T00:47:39Z What you make of an ending that casts what has come before in an entirely fresh light may depend on your ability to justify a tricksy dramatic conceit that, in my view, doesn’t pay off. Review: ‘The Children,’ in London, Offers Hints of an Apocalypse 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Radical in its conceit, familiar in its everyday details, “Boyhood” exists at the juncture of classical cinema and the modern art film without being slavishly indebted to either tradition. Movie Review: Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ Is a Model of Cinematic Realism 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z There's no subject matter inherently taboo in humor – you can take the conceit of Hitler's last days in the bunker and make it entertaining. "Family Guy's" latest "shock" target: Veterans 2010-05-17T15:03:00Z What moves “LP1” ahead from her earlier work is that some of these new songs rise above a single musical conceit. FKA twigs Tries a Different Tack on ‘LP1’ 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z Most shows can’t easily junk their songs, scripts or conceits in the months between out-of-town runs and Broadway. For Tony Nominations, Musicals Are Anyone’s Guess 2014-04-16T16:32:06Z The conceit is that you’re a cadet at the academy’s Career Day in the 26th century. Trekkies, Set Phasers to Fun for a Trip to Starfleet Academy 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z In the half-dozen paintings and drawings based on this conceit, none of which can be securely attributed, Mona Vanna really does look like a man with implants. Germaine Greer: The debate over Mona Lisa's identity 2011-02-20T22:30:00Z His Wakefield is a creature of words, less a man than a conceit. Review: Bryan Cranston Is a Dad in Suburban Exile in ‘Wakefield’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z It’s a conceit I borrowed from Oscar Wilde… And it’s a way of getting antithetical ideas out there at the same time. Critics are human, too: “But I don’t think you’re doing the artist or the audience or the art form itself any favor if you pat things on the head” 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z But we may not be as far from such poetic conceits of the body as we like to believe. Bad Bishops, Bloodletting and a Plague of Caterpillars 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Rather than relay this tale as a traditional documentary, Doria employs an ingenious formal conceit. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z A deceptively simple raw guitar clang, and some eloquently tossed phrases; it's not an elaborate conceit, but it's undeniably a precious essence. This week's new live music 2013-03-16T06:00:08Z The cellphone put a whole new set of plot devices and conceits in jeopardy. Critic’s Notebook: Supreme Court’s DNA Ruling Tests the Scriptwriter’s Art 2013-06-04T22:12:16Z It was an elaborate conceit for the underlying problem of how to decorate a massive shed in the middle of the city. Leeds Arena: giant mint helmet or technicolour dreamboat? 2013-04-25T11:23:00Z “Underground Airlines,” the new book by Ben H. Winters, is an alternate-history novel with a terrifying conceit at its heart. ‘Underground Airlines’ imagines a modern U.S. where slavery is still legal 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z It's a clever conceit: allowing producers to refresh the show and find a new audience, while keeping a ring of truth about proceedings. The return of Skins 2011-01-25T20:59:01Z That spectral conceit has a strong emotional effect on one of the movie’s characters and turns out to have a basis not in the metaphysical realm but in the economic one. How “Parasite” Falls Short of Greatness 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Both movies share the conceit of isolated families starting anew, but “The Witch” particularly amplifies the foreshadowing of tragedy from the moment it starts. Redrum and Then Some: 7 Movies Influenced by ‘The Shining’ 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z It is a clever conceit, almost too clever, but carried through well in both the text and the staging. Music Review: Mozart, Strauss and Friends, an Austrian Seasonal Tradition 2012-08-01T21:53:15Z It’s a clever conceit, though the execution flounders in part because Parsons, who had a 12-season stint on “The Big Bang Theory,” can’t shake the sitcom off himself in the serious sequences. ‘Spoiler Alert’ Review: Perfect Strangers Form Family Ties 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The comedy's central conceit is that it's a story told by actor Josh Radnor's character, Ted, to his teenage children about how their mom and dad met. Climax to CBS series filmed 8 years ago 2014-01-16T21:05:20Z There’s a tendency among some programmers, though, to place their work in the same category as that of writers and musicians and painters, and Chandra is, in the end, disinclined to indulge this conceit. How to Understand Your Computer 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z But this high-grade pulp entertainment is too delectably amusing and self-amused, and far too aware of its own outrageous conceits to sustain such a dolorous verdict. Movie Review | 'The Ghost Writer': Writer for Hire Is a Wanted Man 2010-02-19T05:58:00Z It’s hard to find a fresh take on the time-travel conceit, since it’s been around so long and has been so heavily mined lately, but “Travelers” has some attention-grabbing flourishes and fine acting. Review: In ‘Travelers,’ Some Serious Time-Sharing 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z She’s from Arizona, which authorizes a few cactus jokes and also the conceit of a romantic weekend during which Gatsby will show her the hometown sights: A suite at the Pierre. ‘A Rainy Day in New York’ Review: How to Ruin Your Weekend 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Its slightly strained conceit is that Winslow's oh-so-crazy talent gets him into all sorts of scrapes. Michael Winslow 2010-07-15T21:30:00Z By utilizing the same documentary conceit as “The Office” to follow the boring lives of vampires living on Staten Island, this TV series captures an often overlooked truth about eternal life: It gets tedious. Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z A desperate impulse for flight isn’t the only source of drama in this conceit. Theater: ?Maple and Vine,? a ?50s Flashback 2011-11-27T04:47:17Z The director, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, uses a simple horror conceit — ghosts are online — to summon the terror of dissolution. The Horror Novel Lurking in Your Busy Online Life 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z All of these shows are clever, well-executed variations on a similarly dark conceit: comedies spelled with a small c and a big D for downer. Television Review: ?Enlightened? Stars Laura Dern on HBO - Review 2011-10-09T22:00:00Z With a grand, metaphorical conceit guiding them, the crew flew to the Western European island in November for four days of round-the-clock shooting. See Dierks Bentley's Stunning New 'Black' Music Video 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z At its heart is a fantastical conceit: music as a conjurer of miracles. Science fiction and fantasy – reviews 2012-10-05T07:00:03Z With a chill, we recall Henry’s romantic conceit: “I hunt only one hind.” 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Thomas More Follows His Principles Straight to the Torture Chamber 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z The conceit is deceptively straightforward: Ivan and Ivana are twins born to a single Guadeloupean mother, and as they grow up they adore each other above all else in the world. 2 Novels by ‘Alternative Nobel’ Winner Take On Power and Its Abuses 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z For all that, there's something half-baked about the main conceit. Rise of the Guardians 2012-11-14T12:17:15Z Loopholes, resurrected characters, plot resets, ever-branching arcs: time travel is an infinitely flexible conceit, limited only to its own pseudoscientific rules of causality. “See You Yesterday” and the Perils—and Promise—of Time-Travelling While Black 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z But “Bayou Billionaires” operates under a familiar conceit of the wealthy: a belief that the good fortune may never run out. | 'Bayou Billionaires' and 'My Big Redneck Vacation': 2 Families Face a Gust of Fortune 2012-01-21T00:37:32Z The show, premiering in October, boasts a loaded cast, a unique conceit and, in Weiner, a writer-director involved with two of the greatest television series of all time. Can Matthew Weiner turn The Romanoffs into a Mad Men-sized hit? 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z The conceit is that straight-man Thomas keeps corralling louche-cannon Hoyle into line: when the latter's fury gets out of control, the former barks, "Camp it up, David!" in a doomed bid to keep proceedings upbeat. Merrie Hell – review 2012-12-13T18:15:57Z There’s another factor: the conceit that the truth is always in the middle, so we should choose the middle of the road. We need to stop lying to kids about Donald Trump 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z I’m not generally a spoiler-phobe, but I have to say I’m a little dismayed at the trailers and news stories that seem willing to give away the conceit so brazenly. ‘Palm Springs’ Review: Déjà Vu All Over Again 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z It’s a thrilling conceit and one hopes that Get Out might signal a trend of culturally relevant horror films from film-makers of color. Get Out: the horror film that shows it's scary to be a black man in America 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The high-concept conceit of that show, which centred around an imagined discourse between two designers who never met, did not translate into box office appeal. Punk fashion celebrated at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-02-11T19:42:30Z It’s a clever conceit that lends structure to an otherwise roving, interior narrative. The Show Is About to Begin, Onstage and in the Audience’s Minds 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Combined with elements of Hwang’s own story, including a life-threatening stabbing attack on a Brooklyn street in 2015, “Soft Power” pivots a little too glibly from one conceit to another. Review | Ever wondered how China sees America? ‘Soft Power’ offers amusing ideas. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z This film is an instance of an actor-director’s watchful study of maturation — Mr. Schubert appears in almost every scene — effectively meshing with a cinematographer’s structuring visual conceit. Movie Review: ‘Breathing,’ Directed by Karl Markovics 2012-08-30T23:18:16Z And we must learn that the national image is a hollow conceit. After Senate’s report on CIA interrogation tactics, it’s time to see who we really are 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Its central conceit is pretty inarguable: it has totally worked out The X Factor is exploitative, contrived and cynical and that Simon Cowell is probably a bad hat, less interested in music than money. 'The real problem is the songs' 2012-12-11T23:02:00Z It has its tropes and devices, its forms and conceits. White bro reading: Yes, I’m reading men and women equally — but they’re still mostly white 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z And it's a clever conceit that suffers from overkill. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z Eventually, she even outgrows the show’s therapy conceit, and the series begins to evolve with her. Comfort Viewing: Why I Love ‘Being Erica’ 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z It’s a nifty dystopian conceit, but it reinforces the air of presumption that sands down the pleasures of “Users.” ‘Users’ Review: Brave New World 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z The three main characters are either father, antagonist and son, or simply different manifestations of a single person, and the conceit includes an orchestra, real and imagined. Music Review: Something Borrowed and Something New 2011-05-08T22:19:30Z Starting from the conceit that her ghost has returned to earth, they follow two present-day street dogs in vérité style. ‘Space Dogs’ Review: No Dogs Go to Heaven 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z The staging often veered into murky symbolic conceits — bolts of cloth swaddling and unspooling, a ritualistically torn newspaper — or stiff, stylized movements that clashed with the realistic veneer. Review | This production of ‘L’Enfance du Christ’ gets tangled up in current events 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z In Soper’s script, the mortal musicians’ conceit is presented as a lazy effort from a group of busy artists who are having trouble making their schedules align. Review: Outshining a Premiere, a Group Announces Its Arrival 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z And “Roller Coaster” is unexpectedly lovely, a simple conceit about overwhelming passion rendered elegantly: “She’s like a song playing over and over/In my mind, where I still hold her.” Critic’s Notebook: Luke Bryan, the Leading Gentleman of Country 2013-08-16T22:08:47Z The CW audience skews young enough that some viewers may need to pause at the first commercial break to Google “ham radio,” but it’s a sweet little conceit worthy of one of Mr. King’s novels. Review: Daughter and Father, Talking Across Time in CW’s ‘Frequency’ 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z The whole show is like a literary device or conceit. "You" star Penn Badgley thinks his killer Joe has "too many sides .. and he needs to die" 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z This DIY element has now been rendered more Generation Gamey with the introduction of celebrity guests who muck in under some vaguely competitive conceit. TV OD with Daniel Maier: Food Factory 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z The conceit of “The Good Doctor” is that the condition that limits Shaun’s human interactions is inseparable from his gift. On ‘The Good Doctor,’ the Anti-Antihero Is In 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z The story’s smart conceit is to make him the moral outlier. In This Story Collection, the Dead Are Served Up Hot-Pot Style 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z This is a conceit that Kelman would never countenance – a breach of the character's existential consciousness which confirms some greater and abstract hierarchy, even that of "novelistic structure". Waterline by Ross Raisin ? review 2011-07-13T09:05:02Z He’s using it as a conceit, a plaything and a structural principle. Review: ‘Arabian Nights’ Offers Satirical Fabulism Amid Economic Austerity 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z You don’t see this at first, because Mr. Payne is so charmed by the conceit itself. Review: In ‘Downsizing,’ Matt Damon Sweats the Small Stuff 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z If they weren’t handled so deftly and packaged with so many other non sequiturs to laugh at, the conceits might be far too precious. Lady Dynamite: Maria Bamford’s experimental comedy does meta better 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The conceit that every fictional invention is a spin on a real-life event clearly appeals to Harvey Weinstein, producer of the film and the musical. In 'Finding Neverland' at the Pantages, pirates and pixie dust obscure the show's secret weapon: Sorrow 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The conceit of the show is disturbing, but not perhaps in the way intended: Going blind is treated as a curse, the linchpin of horror. Perspective | D.C. theater is taking cautious steps back to ‘live’ with plexiglass screens and plays on headphones 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s all extremely Freudian, which is part of the reason the therapy conceit inPortnoy’s Complaint works as well as it does. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z The captivating new video “Sanook Dee Museum” — or “Fun Museum” — revisits an earlier conceit of Ms. Araya’s: showing copies of renowned Western artworks to Thai villagers, who judge and appreciate them on their own terms. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z That initial idea is now also pushed aside by a far less subtle conceit that takes center stage. Memorial Review: Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Opens in Washington 2011-08-25T12:00:00Z On screen Ray and the students play versions of themselves, a conceit that smoothly fits into this era of reality television. Reclaiming Causes of Nicholas Ray, Film Rebel 2010-06-16T22:54:00Z Eventually I wrote, explaining the conceit, a middle-aged folly. When Writing a Book Leaves a (Literal) Mark on Its Author 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z The conceit of the vacuous nonfiction movie “Casting JonBenet” is simple. Review: ‘Casting JonBenet’ Revisits a 1996 Murder 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Obviously, the conceit and the concept of cooking in one pan, washing up aside, is that whatever you are cooking is benefiting from other things that are around it in that environment. Cooking with Jamie Oliver is cheap, easy — and requires only one pan 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Reaction was swift and brutal, and the conceit was quickly dropped. Fantasy Football Isn’t Just a Man’s Game 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z This creates a kind of flatline with regard to the central conceit. A Dying Father, His Son and One Last Road Trip 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The second installment of the series, on Thursday evening, pointed up a few problems with this conceit. Music Review: A Concept Is Minimal. The Works Sure Aren?t. 2011-07-16T00:02:19Z It’s a conceit that pays off the second a shambolic Michael Keaton makes his entrance as a graybeard puttering about a near-derelict Wayne Manor. ‘The Flash’ Review: Electric Company 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z The poet on Monday, Tom Sleigh, offered charming quirks of his own in meditations from a subway platform that, among other conceits, analogized the resident rats to the birds surrounding St. Francis of Assisi. Music Review: Trinity Choir and Baroque Orchestra?s Bach at One - Review 2012-01-03T23:20:10Z The basic plot — a woman collecting payback from the men who have assaulted her — is not exactly new, and it’s a conceit that can be used as an alibi. Review: In ‘Revenge,’ the Trophy Turns Hunter 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Although each segment has its own broadly cartoonish, generally heavily graphic visual style, as befits a professional funnyman, the story they tell in aggregate is less formally bold than the overall conceit. Movie Review: ‘Liar’s Autobiography,’ With Graham Chapman and Monty Python 2012-11-09T01:42:26Z It’s all a thoroughly edited and packaged, of course, and everyone — host, show participants, producers, and viewer— is in on the conceit. Trump treated the Dunns like characters on reality TV, with grotesque results 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the results prove a pretentious and convoluted conceit. 'Happiness on Earth' proves difficult to appreciate 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The Selector also periodically stands in for Hank’s and Julian’s fathers — a conceit that, at least here, given Maldonado’s largely humorous approach, tends to play down the family conflicts hinted at in the script. Idris Goodwin’s ‘How We Got On’ at Forum Theatre But the flimsiness of the movie’s conceit also works to its benefit. ‘An American Pickle’ Review: Keeping It Kosher 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z The market is suddenly so crowded, new entrants are arriving with increasingly knotty conceits. You Know Your History? These Podcasts Aren’t So Sure 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z His cycles-of-civilization conceit was just that, a historically received way of thinking about the world that he projected onto his sense of America. Review | Did America’s great landscape painter fear progress and hate democracy? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z A conceit that has a couple of scenes unfurling in video form, on the submarine’s walls, seems arbitrary and unnecessary, but otherwise the visuals add suspense and atmosphere. Two classic Shakespeares, each with ups and downs 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Janney said she found herself drawn to the conceit expressed in the play’s title, as well as the details of the story. Allison Janney to Return to Broadway in ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ Revival 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z But “Hardcore Henry” may be the most ambitious full-length use of this conceit. ‘Hardcore Henry’ Transforms the Viewer Into the Star 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Which brings us — heavy sigh — to the multiverse, a narrative conceit recently deployed with infinitely more wit and imagination by the directing duo Daniels in the blessedly unfranchised “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Review: Nothing Out of the Ordinary 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Here’s “Part II,” an 88-minute bore without the nervy, shaky-camera found-footage conceit, without the doubting exorcist’s moment of truth, without the chills of demonic possession thrills that the low-budget original film served up. Please, let this be the ‘Last Exorcism’ 2013-03-01T17:59:07Z The result is a follow-the-bouncing-ball effect, and Mr. Williams helps the conceit along with flourishes of lively staging. If You Want to Make a ‘Hamlet,’ You Have to Break Some Rules 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Those old Weill productions would be too ambitious; Soper’s conceits, too experimental. America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Within his simple conceit, there are well-tempered performances and a visual and emotional tone that help elucidate a plot as convoluted as the Bard ever devised. Shakespeare's complicated 'Cymbeline' is sweetly streamlined at Seattle Shakespeare Co. 2011-01-12T21:17:04Z Here, it’s just a weightless comic conceit like the cutout figures who occasionally dance across the screen for no other purpose than to buoy an already giddy tone of insistent levity. ‘Chinese Puzzle,’ a Comedy Directed by Cedric Klapisch 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z To be “white” has never been a coherent conceit, and “Buzzing at the Sill” catalogues its many American permutations. Peter van Agtmael’s Decoding of American Violence 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z However well intentioned, the pope’s environmentalism highlights a caustic conceit at the core of Judeo-Christian theology. The right’s science/religion hypocrisy: So now they want to leave science to the scientists 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z At the start, three clocks tick at different speeds, coinciding every 15 seconds – a brittle conceit of the kind Ravel enjoyed. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z But the astute depiction of modern-day teenage culture and pitch-perfect ensemble cast moves “American Vandal” beyond the clever conceit and into the realm of masterful comedy. How an Egotistic Basketball Star Grounds ‘American Vandal’ Season 2 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s hard to avoid the comparison when your central conceit involves an icky, malevolent creature extricating itself from a man’s body. 5 Science-Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z The conceit of the movie is that Trump, back in the late nineteen-eighties, adapted his best-selling memoir into a television movie, which, because of a scheduling conflict with a football game, didn’t air. The Fake Donald Trump Movie Isn’t Funny Enough 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z The conceit of the boss going undercover is of course set up. ?Undercover Boss? Is Surprise Reality Show Hit for CBS 2010-03-19T22:42:00Z “The initial conceit was that the show would be something of a conversation between Mexico and America,” Graziano said. In ‘Coyote,’ Breaking the Cop, Not the Rules 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z But the book doggedly follows its intriguing conceit, rendering even more poignant the scene of the czarina and her daughters busily sewing jewels into the seams of their garments, optimistic to the end. Fictional Glimpses of the Past: From the Tudors to the Czars 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The stories range far and wide, within the relatively narrow confines of this conceit.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z In a formally experimental conceit that tips its hat to B. S. Johnson and Ali Smith, this is a novel of two halves printed back to back and upside down. Immigrant Lives, Back to Back and Upside Down 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The conceit of it is that during the course of the book, we write a song together. Jarvis Cocker Keeps Hearing That Voice 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z The set designer Heike Scheele has fun with the desk conceit while tapping into its metaphoric richness. Music Review: Reimagining Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ at Salzburg Festival 2013-08-05T21:45:01Z That conceit, of the naturalized citizen serving as a ringleader for an inquisition into American history, is the notional germ of Ferguson’s new show, “Join or Die,” which premières on the History channel tonight. Craig Ferguson’s History Show, “Join or Die” 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z They are almondesque in conceit, built from the same blueprint, but filled with pistachio paste and blackberry, or with a raspberry violet cream. How to transform a bakery croissant into something marvelous 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Showing everything isn’t exactly a subtle curatorial conceit, but in this case it worked. Perspective | In a year of upheaval, the best art was also the bravest 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The central conceit of the novel is as simple as it is bold. In Colson Whitehead’s Latest, the Underground Railroad Is More Than a Metaphor 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Anson’s conceit is to approach Bordeaux from a terroir perspective, with a deep dive into the underlying geology of the region, which turns out to be much more complex than is often imagined. 6 Books for Thinking, Drinking and Changing the World 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z "Placing it in a theater and coming up with the great conceit that it all happens in one long edit-free experience — those two go hand in hand." Host Neil Patrick Harris has his wit about him for big night 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z To establish this conceit, the actors frequently reconfigure the furniture and perfunctory wall units that constitute the set — an unwieldy process. Review | New Joe Calarco drama ‘Separate Rooms’ debuts at emerging 4615 Theatre 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z His primary conceit is to turn the medium’s typical hyperbolic bombast on its head. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z In an unusual confluence, Paramount’s schedule has been crisscrossed lately with films that share a conceit: an amateur’s camera capturing what it is not supposed to see. They Shoot Movies, Don?t They? The Camera as Star 2011-02-19T00:02:14Z Scorsese even places these characters amid the archival footage, dubbing the voice of Van Dorp into documentary sequences, blurring the historical record to match the fictional conceit. “Rolling Thunder Revue,” Reviewed: Martin Scorsese’s Slippery Chronicle of Bob Dylan in Concert 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z The structural conceit is that these women, both in their mid-60s, stole a kiss by the marmalades in a suburban Dublin supermarket. Theater Review: ?I ? Alice ? I? by Amy Conroy at Irish Arts Center 2012-03-05T03:00:00Z “Lone Star” offers an amusing and novel television conceit, but in an age of Enron and Bernard Madoff, it takes a very persuasive actor to keep viewers rooting for a swindler. Television Review: Two Lives, Two Loves, One Con Man 2010-09-19T17:08:00Z In “Orlando” it sprang from a fantastical literary conceit. Arts & Leisure: Glenn Close as a Man in ?Albert Nobbs? 2011-12-09T13:00:00Z The diverging timelines are often confusing, the songs workable but nothing extraordinary and the character portraits rely too heavily on the clockwork conceit. Review: Close Quarters and Distant Love in ‘The Last Five Years’ 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z It is a bizarre conceit and a disturbing one. Theater Review: ‘Luther,’ by Ethan Lipton, at Here Arts Center 2012-06-13T21:50:27Z Yes, it’s an odd conceit, particularly whimsical for a novel that explores such painful material, but not surprising from Shafak. Review | In Elif Shafak’s ‘The Island of Missing Trees,’ a surprising narrator makes sense of surreal events 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z But her conceit — that the Trojan War’s women are underexamined heroines — is mildly perplexing. Stories of War and Its Aftermath, From Ancient Greece to America in ‘2034’ 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z The result, “The Spoils of Babylon,” was the first of what could amount to quite a library of high-tone shlock — the overarching conceit holds that the creators have the rights to 20 of Jonrosh’s books. From Will Ferrell to Stuffed Squirrels: 6 Steps to the Perfect TV Spoof 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z But I agree with you—the show took a conceit that could have been wonderfully wacky and instead the episode felt more like a traditional dramedy than usual. funny stuff, conflict, conflict resolved. ArtsBeat: Late-Night Double Feature: The 'Rocky Horror Glee Show' Reconsidered 2010-10-27T20:30:00Z A couple of tactical conceits work very well here. Books of The Times: ?Watergate,? a Novel by Thomas Mallon 2012-02-15T20:34:23Z But the revival of “And Baby Makes Seven” at the New Ohio Theater, in partnership with Purpleman Theater, offers another reason: The central conceit is reductive, repetitive and extremely off-putting. Theater Review: Paula Vogel’s ‘And Baby Makes Seven’ Is Revived 2014-03-25T21:55:51Z Unfortunately, “These Paper Bullets!” ultimately never moves beyond its clever conceit to become a fully absorbing reinvention of the Shakespeare play. Theater Review: ‘These Paper Bullets!’ Opens at Yale Rep 2014-03-27T21:56:49Z Maybe he was sensitive about how the three-night booking, which began on Monday — Valentine’s Day — had him supporting two less accomplished guests and a programmatic conceit. Music Review: The Accomplished Joined by the Young and Promising 2011-02-16T22:46:42Z "There's always a new trick, surprise or theatrical conceit coming at you. " 'Frozen' songwriters unveil 'Up Here,' the musical they couldn't let go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z They would split from Hawkins, hook up with Dylan and eventually call themselves The Band — a conceit they well lived up to. Levon Helm, Key Member of The Band, Dies at 71 2012-04-19T19:46:35Z After bouncing around a few ideas, they landed on a conceit that they would write into the play. As God in 'An Act of God,' Sean Hayes has his OMG moment 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z It also explains why the stand-up adjacent style of “Patriot Act” feels livelier and more original than other satirical series mimicking the traditions and conceits of the evening news. Hasan Minhaj’s (r)evolution: “Patriot Act” breaks free from “The Daily Show” format and... 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Death was not a fascination or a stylistic conceit but an all-encompassing, almost soothing aspect of his music. Lil Peep and the Dilemma of the Posthumous Album 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z More seriously, the central conceit of the animation is that my closeness to Jonathan during his life enables me to share his experience of cancer with the audience. “Johnny Physical Lives”: A brother’s documentary love letter to a rock myth cut short 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Longstaffe-Gowan's beautifully illustrated and lovingly researched history is an appropriately impressive celebration of "England's most innovative and most universally admired urban landscape conceit". The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan - review 2012-05-18T21:55:01Z Most of Ms. Siegel’s formal conceits — like conducting interviews using the antiquated recording equipment favored by the Stasi, the East German secret police — are well within the range of current commercial documentary practice. | 'DDR/DDR': Surveillance Culture of the East German Secret Police 2010-05-07T04:05:00Z Though the conceit grows a bit labored at times, it’s an amusing and ingenious avenue of self-exploration that for some in the audience will hold a measure of hope in a time of jeopardy. Where the middle-class dream turns into the world's worst game show 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z This conflation of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary “activity” is precisely the novel’s conceit, playing with the Taoist tradition of paradox. Cheat on Your Partner or Change the World: In This Novel, It’s All the Same 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z There's a film conceit that says that facts or reality don't really matter in the context of a coherent celluloid world. Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom's missing reality principle 2012-06-25T14:20:00Z The conceit is not terribly complex, but it yields images of irresistible mystery. Amir Zaki seeks clarity in photographs 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z So then it was a diptych, and it still felt a little thin, like a conceit. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z If the conceit seems fantastical, Mr. McGuire explained in an interview, it mimics our everyday experience of time. ‘Here,’ Richard McGuire’s Book, an Exhibition at the Morgan 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z And why come up with some creative, unexpected comedy conceit when a retread of an idea will do? Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart buddy up in the cliched 'Get Hard' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Skeptics might question the conceit that a lost memo is the wellspring for what Wallace Stegner would call “the best idea we ever had,” and indeed the thread is thin at first. Review | How did our national parks come to be? A new book explores their rocky start. 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, in this case, Bean’s fizzy conceit goes a bit flat. 'Honky Tonk Laundry': A country-flavored jukebox musical, set to spin 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The mockumentary conceit has been done to death, especially in sitcoms inspired by “Arrested Development” and “The Office.” | 'My Generation': 10 Years After the Prom: Friends as Landmarks 2010-09-22T21:57:00Z The show, with its two principal characters and single-scene conceit, is peak TV in short-form, specifically designed to fit the time spent between subway stops. Fifteen minutes of prestige: how Hollywood went long on short content 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z The buddy movie conceit becomes a family affair in this series that follows the road-tripping capers of Jack, a Brit expat and L.A.-based comedian, and Michael, his very proper English father. A world of small-screen adventure: Here are the best travel TV shows for streaming 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The conceit also forces an actor to give an entirely in-the-moment portrayal of an iconic character, which Shepherd is clearly capable of. ‘A Piece of Work’: ‘Hamlet’ for the computer age 2013-02-23T23:13:22Z The show’s dominant conceit, though, is that of an ongoing requiem, for a people unwittingly taking part in a long funeral procession to their own graves. Review: In ‘The Damned,’ Ivo van Hove Finds the Mortal Chill in a Nazi Fire 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The conceit is sometimes discomfiting but stunningly original. ‘Prune’ cookbook: Gabrielle Hamilton speaks directly to her line cooks That conceit worked reasonably well for Henry James and E. M. Forster, whose august shadows occasionally fall over this sunny and superficial trifle. | 'Letters to Juliet': Amanda Seyfried Helps Reunite Lovers in Verona 2010-05-13T21:17:00Z Performing her No. 1s in chronological order is a convenient conceit, but not one best suited to Ms. Carey’s catalog, or her vocal gift. Review: Mariah Carey and Her Can’t-Look-Away Debut in Las Vegas 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z “Selfie,” which might as well be called “My Fair Sales Rep,” has a more limiting conceit: Once the makeover is complete, then what? ‘Selfie,’ ‘A to Z’ and Others Refresh the Romantic Comedy 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z "I knew I wanted to tell the story of a dinner party, working backward from the guests who are going to be there," Stradal says of his conceit for the novel. 'Kitchens of the Great Midwest': Just something J. Ryan Stradal whipped up 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The conceit of the show is that it's being performed by inmates of Bedlam, who, under Hogarth's own direction, perform stories from his cartoons. Pleasure's Progress 2010-06-22T21:20:00Z I enjoyed the cleverness of the revolving door conceit, though the scene, with it’s blood, sweat, and maniacal shoving of clawing freaks reminded me less of a revolving door than the Q train. 'The Walking Dead' Recap: False Prophets and So. Much. Blood. 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Even when the conceit of the joke is outdated, it still somehow works. Theater Review: ?Old Jews Telling Jokes? at the Westside Theater 2012-05-21T02:00:00Z As Tom conjures his lost relations for us, it's an interesting conceit to view them as phantoms. A strident, ghostly revival of 'Glass Menagerie' at Seattle Rep 2012-11-03T14:31:04Z Every few minutes a dream sequence or another head-spinning conceit calls the reality of the entire enterprise into question. Critic’s Notebook: The Rise of the Anti-Talk Show 2012-06-07T21:51:11Z “At the Existentialist Café” begins by saying it will use the conceit of an imaginary cafe at which the reader can eavesdrop on the greats. Review: In Sarah Bakewell’s ‘At the Existentialist Café,’ Nothingness Has a Certain Something 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z It is a music-hall joke; a literary conceit; a state of mind; a flyover in the middle of nowhere. London Underground at 150 - a birthday journey 2013-01-09T05:21:53Z This may seem a charming conceit, but Ayatsuji makes clever use of it. ‘The Decagon House Murders’ evokes Agatha Christie — in Japan 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z “No Sisters” is its title, and the conceit — at least on paper — sounds coolly of the moment. From Bechdel to Chekhov, literary stars inspire this spring’s D.C. theater choices 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z When we talk about the film as being sort of a fantastical conceit, it doesn't seem that way anymore. "It's like being black in America": "Snowpiercer" star Daveed Diggs on the Tailies with no agency 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z Remember?,” a personal and deceptively complicated study of family relationships wrapped inside an inspired conceit. Critic?s Notebook: Going Under the Radar, and Into the Unknown 2011-01-11T23:53:39Z Even as caustic a character as Philip Larkin was prepared to endorse this conceit. Michael Haneke's Amour gives love an unsettling closeup 2012-11-19T15:08:28Z Truth be told, its throwback-fusion sound ran the risk of being a conceit. Essential tracks: J.D. McPherson's 'Let the Good Times Roll' a sharp shock 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Carpetbagging Shinola is a self-described luxury brand animated by do-gooder impulses, taking the conceit of “Made in Detroit” and squeezing every last retail penny from it. Critical Shopper: The Next Branding of Detroit 2013-08-21T16:51:38Z The title is a clunky and gratuitous conceit. Review: ‘Heisenberg’ Features an Explosive Pairing of Actors 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The conceit of “The Crown” is that, for all their flaws, defeats and compromises — or because of all that — the members of the House of Windsor are fundamentally more interesting than anybody else. ‘Spencer’ Review: Prisoner of the House of Windsor 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The film's title, "homecoming," indicates a return to the original comic-book conceit that Parker is plagued by teenage awkwardness and thus all the more charming. Tom Holland Was Born to Be Spider-Man. Playing Peter Parker Was Another Story. 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z But to continue the conceit, it is a mysterious thing; no one knows the map of the human heart. Review | Amélie Nothomb is a must-read author in France. ‘Strike Your Heart’ shows why. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z No other purpose seems capable of justifying its zany central conceit. Consumerism triumphs in The Joneses 2010-04-26T10:22:00Z Quinn honed portions of "New York Story" at comedy clubs throughout the city, then packaged it under a history-of-the-city conceit for the Cherry Lane. Colin Quinn is embracing the moment — his moment 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z If there are a number of great conceits in the Marvell, then there is a single one in this, at first sight tasteless masterpiece. John Stammers's top 10 love poems 2011-02-09T10:26:17Z On “The Age of Adz” he jettisoned the narrative conceits and civic lessons that drove his other work, to explore the internal, what he called the primal. Mr. Strummy-Strum Tries a Synth Sound 2010-10-15T21:14:00Z And Ms. Wasikowska, embracing the static, romantic conceit of her character, also transcends it — or rather grounds it in the habits and actions of a believably stubborn and capricious young woman. | ?Restless': ?Restless? With Mia Wasikowska - Review 2011-09-15T23:00:10Z Occasionally, the human subjects are filmed strolling past one another – a potentially clunksome conceit that adds a welcome note of surreality to proceedings. Sarah Dempster's TV OD: Wonderland - Walking With Dogs 2012-10-12T15:00:00Z The usual conceit of the heist movie is how after something is achieved, the real issues can come to the fore. Ravi Kapoor on his comedy "Four Samosas": "I always wanted to make a lo-fi heist movie" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z In ballet, it’s usually the women who get those different dramatic ideas and conceits. Boys Will Be Swans: ‘What Is That Show, and How Do I Do It?’ 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The best dystopias extrapolate issues in our society and make us see them more clearly by literalizing their metaphorical conceits. A Dystopian Fable About the Unshakable Borders of Class 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z “I think that the possibilities for it are limitless,” Sadoski says, adding that he doesn’t think the conceit will be limiting. Thomas Sadoski's new role: a Life in Pieces where 'possibilities are limitless' 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z This is standard Hollywood procedure, but the conceit that Ms. Stone’s character, Capt. Allison Ng, is supposed to be a quarter Hawaiian doesn’t really help. Review: ‘Aloha,’ a Hangout Movie With Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone in Hawaii 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z An outlandish, pointedly allegorical conceit is inhabited not by symbolic figures but by terrestrial oddballs. Review: In ‘Downsizing,’ Matt Damon Sweats the Small Stuff 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The playwright took that as his premise — a horrible crime committed by a seemingly gentle, lonely lad who, in Shaffer’s conceit, loves horses to the point of worship. Constellation Theatre revives ‘Equus’ to great effect 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The conceit of Gotti speaking to the audience from beyond the grave might have been more effective had he been given dialogue that didn’t make him sound like an idiot. Review: John Travolta Has the Dapper Look, but ‘Gotti’ Is a Mess 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z In its one significant miscalculation, “Curious Incident” introduces a distracting play-within-a-play conceit. Review | ‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ is up to some new and mesmerizing tricks 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The simple fact that this exotic animal is declared "human" is, of course, a central conceit of Huyghe's larger aesthetic. Warm spots in Pierre Huyghe's often chilly Conceptualism at LACMA 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z But if ever a comic book flick found the perfect era within which to ground its preposterous conceits it was Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman. From Blade Runner 2049 to It: Week in geek's top science fiction and fantasy films of 2017 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z But neither conceit pays off, perhaps because seeing either through would mean keeping the zombies sidelined. Review: ‘The Cured,’ in Which Former Zombies Turn to New Terrorism 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Perhaps inevitably, it involves a peculiar conceit, too. Gruff Rhys: 'I've been trying to build a hotel out of shampoo bottles' 2011-02-06T00:06:04Z It's hard to keep track of The Affair's central conceit, impossible to identify even the vaguest aspects of a buldingsroman of any kind.... ‘The Affair’ Season 3, Episode 8: People See What They Want to See 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Instead she lands as a caricature of one, as the film never really metabolizes or unpacks its conceit: the bonkers time-traveling predicament of its protagonist. ‘Alice’ Review: American Slavery and Black Power Collide 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Instrument design and performing sensibilities have changed radically since the work’s 1742 premiere, and competing performing traditions have arisen, the latest based on the conceit that contemporary musicians can approximate Handel’s sound world. Music Review: ?Messiah? Season, in All of Its Hues 2010-12-16T16:27:17Z Miles’s commitment to this conceit is admirable, but his ultimate intentions are somewhat unclear. A Paralyzed Army Vet Walks Again. Is He Healed — or Is It a Hoax? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Yet its entertaining conceit aside, the show suggests that Mr. Cattelan knows what he’s about: he’s always been uneven and now he is running out of ideas. Art Review: Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim - Review 2011-11-03T22:20:09Z My favorite part of your mother's piece is the conceit in the first sentence. Migrant, Refugee, Gay: You’re All Welcome at This Table 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z It was an appropriation to suit my own poetic conceit, an insult to the delicacy of the real bird. Richard Mabey: in defence of nature writing 2013-07-18T13:00:02Z The basic conceit of the stories, set in the present and told from Sookie's point of view, is a hoot. A 'Sookie Stackhouse' junkie comes clean 2010-05-05T22:34:00Z VH1′s “Dating Naked,” which began last night, paradoxically gains little from its conceit — that contestants must choose one of three suitors while they’re all in the altogether. “Dating Naked”: Welcome to the nude reality-show boom 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z It ended up being mostly original premises and plot lines, but the basic conceit is the same. Simon Rich on “SNL,” “Black Mirror,” and dressing Bill Hader as Hitler 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Given the original's strong characters and ticking-clock conceit, he wasn't the first. Pusher returns – again 2012-10-11T19:00:01Z In the past the conceit struck me as predictable and a perhaps a little embarrassing. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z W. David Hancock’s “Race of the Ark Tattoo” caused a small sensation downtown about a dozen years ago, partly because of its intriguing conceit. | 'Our Lot': When What?s Left of a Man Is Found in His Collections 2011-06-14T22:30:35Z At times, it seemed almost like a comical conceit, like those movies that pivot on the sudden disappearance of a basic pillar of life, “Death Takes a Holiday” or even “The Invention of Lying.” ArtsBeat: A No Cynicism Zone on Oprah?s Network 2011-01-02T15:41:57Z Directed by Isaac Byrne, the production is a series of interactive conceits. Theater Review: ‘Tar Baby,’ With the Comic Desiree Burch 2013-01-10T21:52:00Z There’s no shortage of rural white folks as spectacle; a battalion of doomsday-prepping Honey Boo Boos on television have thoroughly mined the conceit that anyone with a regional American accent exists for viewers’ entertainment. Everyone is reading books trying to explain Trump voters 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z J. K. Rowling transports Harry Potter’s wizardly world to 1926 New York in this first installment in a planned series whose conceit is that it was spun from a Hogwarts textbook. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ and ‘Rescue Dog to Super Dog’ 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z As that implies, the show's conceit lets Henry address big subjects - the grubby epiphanies of his teenage years; adulthood's personal and professional frustrations – with a light touch. Lenny Henry ? review 2011-02-21T21:45:00Z The bond that develops between them — and the ways that it is, inevitably, tested — is rooted in shared trauma, which is to say in a screenwriting conceit. ‘Causeway’ Review: Companions on a Hard Road to Recovery 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z They need independence and isolation to free themselves from the conceits of fashion and the desire to please. Perspective | Art is a collective experience. It’s also a deeply private one. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Occasionally, the effort to commit fully to the conceit feels strained or shows its limitations, as when a grainy camera recording from a distance undercuts the intensity of a particularly dramatic confrontation. Review: In ‘Searching,’ a Clever Conceit and John Cho as Leading Man 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z It should go without saying that a generation is a demographic fiction, and that a stage of life is something of a literary conceit. Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z As macabre as that sounds, the conceit channels actual anxieties in Japan about providing for a growing population of seniors. ‘Plan 75’ Review: Leaving Early 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z A one-man movie is an extremely difficult conceit to sustain. Review: David Oyelowo, Going Mad in ‘Nightingale’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Scranton is a constant in his speeches, a conceit in his memoir and a perennial campaign pit stop. Scranton became shorthand for the past. Its reality is far more complicated. 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Her suspenseful story and winning prose ably serve her literary conceit. 'Solitary House' a mystery with a dose of Dickens 2012-04-30T18:38:09Z Such commitment to ridiculous conceits is part of the fun of his work. Can You Love a Stand-Up Special About Loathing? 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z At close range, here in Paris, with the conceit of a diplomatic summit, Mr. Browne’s uniformity owed less to the United States as Camelot than to the blunt aesthetic of an East German housing block. Fashion Review: In Paris, the Wimp Effect Takes Hold 2010-06-29T22:42:00Z Every resonant theme or intriguing story possibility is stripped away and replaced with a ready-made franchise-movie conceit. Review: ‘The Huntsman,’ a Study in Hollywood’s Overstuffed Playbook 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The genius of Humphries’ conceit was to translate the small-minded, unyielding smugness of the middle-class Australian suburbs in which he grew up into the even more invincible complacency of outrageous, drop-dead stardom. The Cathartic Value of Dame Edna’s Extravaganzas of Ego 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z I hesitate to unpack too much from his grab bag of gags and conceits. Review: ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ but Can I Interest You in a Wild Dystopian Satire? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z “The Lobster” is often startlingly funny in the way it proposes its surreal conceits, and then upsettingly grim in the way it follows through on them. Review: In ‘The Lobster,’ Colin Farrell Plays a Divorced Man in a Loner-Hating Society 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z At times, the appeal lies in the sheer ridiculousness of her conceits. Album review: Lady Gaga, 'Born This Way' 2011-05-20T05:36:35Z But the narrative conceits of “Nine Days,” while exquisitely constructed, are intricate to the point of laborious. ‘Nine Days’ Review: Belief in the Beforelife 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z It's a brilliant conceit that puts a new spin on a 50-year-old dynamic. Doctor Who: Matt Smith's debut in The Eleventh Hour - the verdict 2010-04-03T18:25:00Z As the title suggests, the conceit is that when we humans are away, our furry, scaly, feathered companions get up to all kinds of mischief. Review: ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ Amuses, but Misses Opportunities 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z This new film continues with the conceit that this is a world where those things don’t exist. The Women of ‘Wakanda Forever’ 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Benedict’s new novel, based on the life of the Hollywood film star and legendary beauty Hedy Lamarr, puts the conceit of the lone woman in a man’s world once again on center stage. A Novelist Who’s Made a Career Writing About ‘The Only Woman in the Room’ 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z The result is a film that feels strangely superficial, even though its conceit is a psychological portrait of an artist excavating his deepest psychological material. Taron Egerton shines in an oddly dark ‘Rocketman’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Sometimes artists commit to a conceit for a reason that can be, as you say, very practical. "Scenes from a Marriage" boss Hagai Levi on empowering the wife to leave: "I have to fight for her" 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s around the same time that Kene reverses the play’s central, and ultimately overworked, conceit, insisting that white gentrifiers, rather than Black men, are viruses infecting the city. Review: In ‘Misty,’ a Restless Artist Grapples With a Gentrifying City 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z And while building the play around various games is a fine conceit, it sometimes seems too pat. Review: ‘House Rules’ and All Kinds of Games 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Sullivan raised the ante with a conceit lifted from Nikolai Gogol’s classic comedy “The Inspector General.” Seattle Rep mounts redo of ‘Inspecting Carol’ romp | Theater review 2012-11-30T23:03:22Z She got inside her stage conceits — a boxing ring for the new dance track “Goin’ In,” a nightclub for the ersatz salsa in “Let’s Get Loud” and “Papi” — but not her songs themselves. Music Review: Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias at Prudential Center 2012-07-22T22:52:40Z The spare, subtle use of video to illuminate certain entries in this “Book of Days” also tended to work much better than most new-music-meets-multimedia conceits. Two Downtown Luminaries, Still Blazing 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The conceit of the project — mortality marked off like tree rings — is so inherently engaging that it’s easy to miss how artful the photographs are. Review | The art of Nicholas Nixon might break your heart 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z But I suspect that my lack of interest in her psychic disturbance has much more to do with narrative execution, which is to say, the OCD conceit. Girls season two review: surprises and disappointments 2013-03-18T15:24:16Z But the creators of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” and the show’s executives said they believed that the conceit lent itself more to a comedy than to a drama. The Great American Musical, Side B, in ‘My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The conceit relates to a central, unifying principle of “Everyman,” or “Everybody,” that humankind shares a common set of values, and fate. Review | For ‘Everybody,’ it’s not. This riff on ‘Everyman’ has archness all over it. 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Less character than conceit, Bill isn’t a specific father and uneasy American abroad; he’s a symbol. ‘Stillwater’ Review: Another American Tragedy 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z But both conceits are essentially thin pretexts to throw a bunch of jokes together recapping recent news under socially distanced conditions. When Is a Comedy Special Also a Corporate Synergy Message? 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z And yet, at times this production too explicitly spells out his conceit, as when Hnath questions how much of Cuiffo’s magic is mimicry, each trick being a variation of a theme — yes, a simulacrum. ‘A Simulacrum’ Review: A Magic Show in the Making, and Unmaking 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Flight distance, which Ms. Simoneau described in a program note as the distance an individual places between himself and others, was the evening’s theme, but as a choreographic conceit it’s dangerous territory. Dance Review: Helen Simoneau Danse at Joyce SoHo 2012-05-22T22:08:36Z The stories range far and wide, within the relatively narrow confines of this conceit. Can Political Satire Outpace Reality? 3 Books Toss Their Hats in the Ring 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Yet where Foster finally trips up is in failing to convince that this potentially dubious conceit offers an productively imaginative way to examine depression, and in handling banal homilies as if they were dynamite insights. SXSW 2011: The Beaver - review 2011-03-17T10:10:14Z The existence of an invisible, BlackBerry-obsessed social observer copies shamelessly, of course, from the conceit of “Gossip Girl.” | 'Pretty Little Liars': A New ABC Family Series From Sara Shepard?s Books 2010-06-07T21:44:00Z The novel’s conceits — including the assertion that its hero, Billy Pilgrim, is “unstuck in time,” bouncing around his own life like a pinball — were conveyed in a deceptively relaxed, accessible style. ‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time’ Review: An Idol Shares the Camera 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z It doesn’t work as a conceit or as a structural device. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, 'Compass' by Mathias Enard is brilliant and frustrating 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Unison is less of a choreographic conceit than a way to show how a tribe moves with one pulse. Dance Review: Ratmansky?s ?Russian Seasons? From New York City Ballet 2012-02-05T22:36:15Z For all of its experimentation, sometimes the most straightforward conceits worked best. Demons, death and dynamite dialogue: the 20 best episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z But with this movie, he’s built a world in which his own appearance would create suspicion in the dramatization of the conceit. Plot Twist! Why 2004 Was a Surprising Year for Movies 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z That sense of humor underlies the basic conceit of "The Blondes," in which blond women, so long objects of the male gaze, suddenly become fearsomely threatening. Beware the infectious beasts of 'The Blondes' 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z But the play’s central conceit is too flimsy for political satire. ‘Lemons’ Review: A Fun Thought Exercise, Without Deep Thoughts 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z The central conceit of “Third Person,” a study of three fractious relationships and set in Rome, Paris and New York, is that any romance between two people involves a third — or more. Paul Haggis Prepares His Film ‘Third Person’ for Release 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Happily the exhibition, billed as the first monochromatic look at Picasso’s whole career, is much more than a clever conceit. Art Review: ‘Picasso Black and White’ at the Guggenheim Museum 2012-10-04T20:56:12Z Shelah is a passive figure — her choices are all in the past — and the woe that descends on her seems like a playwriting conceit that even in these days of devastating hurricanes strains credulity. In 'Head of Passes,' a mother comes to terms with a storm, a secret and God 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z This series is not particularly high-tech, and it doesn’t have a real-time ticking clock conceit, spectacular special effects or preposterous red herrings. Television Review: ?Homeland,? Starring Claire Danes, on Showtime ? Review 2011-09-29T16:32:19Z Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/ Columbia Pictures The new This is the End is less notable for its vision of Hollywood hit by the apocalypse than for the conceit of having its entire cast play themselves. This is the End: why actors love to play themselves 2013-06-06T18:00:00Z The conceit itself is funny, but the fluid way in which the two men tossed the sticks back and forth to each other was hypnotic. Music Review: Igudesman & Joo Join Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-01-01T21:15:03Z It’s a simple conceit, and as far as D’Angelo is concerned, not a wholly accurate one. D’Angelo's Apollo Theater Show Featured Signature Songs and Style 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z His temporal agent contains sly multitudes and could easily have become a gimmick, but Mr. Hawke brings enough pathos and soul to his performance that the conceit soon becomes a man — well, for starters. ‘Predestination,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z It’s “X2CU,” and though the lyrics and song structure are different — Mr. Derulo’s song has a shimmery chorus that owes a debt to Morris Day and the Time — the conceit is much the same. Review: Jason Derulo Glides Across Genres on ‘Everything Is 4’ 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z He was blunt and unpretentious, wholly without conceit. Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z This is not just a clever, playful conceit. Review: Kamel Daoud Interrogates Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The Bond universe's "the government is always looking out for us" conceit is a big part of what made the stories so staggeringly profitable. Assange: Bond villain -- or Bourne? 2010-12-03T16:04:00Z At first it’s like a remake of last season’s “You Would Bang Her?”–but it pushes the conceit into absurdity into a faux-melodrama about the male gaze arguing against itself. Review: Inside Amy Schumer Makes the Personal Parodic 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Yet this is the conceit of “Uncertain Justice,” and it will strike many court watchers as strangely off the mark. ‘Uncertain Justice’ and ‘Scalia’ 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z The key conceit of "Mr. Holmes" is that the detective was a real person whose exploits were fictionalized into "penny dreadfuls with an elevated prose style" by Dr. Watson. 'Mr. Holmes' smartly examines the great detective in winter 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The killer conceit is that he’s singing to the machine carrying her; singing to the woman herself would be too much to bear. Merle Haggard’s American Tales: A Critic’s Tour 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The central conceit of “Will,” that players and playwrights were the superstars of their day, isn’t quite true. ‘Will’ on TNT: A Punk-Rock Shakespeare, Striving and Stage-Diving in the Big City 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z The transition from daily life to song and dance is the musical’s central conceit, but it also feels like a clumsy trick, an uncommonly dorky hustle. Basketball, the musical 2012-12-16T16:00:00Z “Stranger by the Lake” is seductive and fascinating, but it is also a bit trapped in its own conceit, and in its carefully maintained emotional detachment. Movie Review: Death and Desire in ‘Stranger by the Lake’ 2014-01-23T23:17:56Z One unfortunate byproduct of the way the conceit is handled here is that Hall vanishes for most of the movie. ‘Little’ Review: Too Much Caution and Not Enough Regina Hall 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z At one point, one of the Gabriels describes a conceit Thomas came up with for one of his plays. The Kennedy Center sets an inviting table for ‘The Gabriels’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z But the conceit, among others, didn’t work: the actors were inexperienced, the abstract costumes were confusing, and the scenes dragged. Revisiting a Legendary Sondheim Flop 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z That disgusting conceit provides a fitting central image for the movie, a cold-blooded noir in which the overarching question is which chumps will become chum, literal or metaphorical. Review: In ‘Bayou Caviar,’ the Main Course Is a Cold-Blooded Noir 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Like “Romantic Comedies,” the central piece, “21 Extremely Bad Breakups,” pushes its conceit to the point of absurdity, and then far beyond. These Short Story Debuts Are ‘Squirmy,’ ‘Virtuosic,’ ‘Claustrophobic’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z It's an amusingly twisty conceit, developed with DIY props and audience participation. Simon Munnery ? review 2011-02-14T22:30:01Z This is both the film's conceit and its drawback. Diego Luna and Sienna Miller can't figure out what's real in the trippy, exhausting "Wander Darkly" 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z His books are frequently constructed around some clever conceit. Do we really need another novel about a novelist? Yes — this one is delightful. 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Its “first pregnant man” conceit is just a setup for a carnival of broadly racist and sexist scenarios that evinces little interest in the reality of pregnancy itself. Pregnant Men Were a Movie Punchline. Now They’re Horror Villains. 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The conceit is rather ingenious: to use a graphically inventive style of animation to manufacture a caper involving the theft of famous paintings. ‘Ruben Brandt, Collector’ Review: Stealing Inspiration From Great Art 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The movie’s conceit, embedded in the title, is that all of the depicted action takes place, from one year to the next, on a single date, July 15. | 'One Day': Emma and Dex and July 15 2011-08-18T12:00:00Z For a decade now, “American Idol” has been winning fans with its weekly wallop of suspense and surprise, along with a fairy-tale conceit that fortune can smile on even the most obscure among us. American Idol: Riveting despite itself 2012-05-24T11:51:00Z It’s an elaborate, slightly twee conceit, but now there’s another place to eat roasted oysters, and many of the other throwback preparations are also surprisingly delicious. Amelia Lester: Elaborate Throwback Cuisine at the Runner, in Clinton Hill 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Switching the conceit from escalators to elevators, Whitehead spent the next nine months writing his acclaimed 1999 novel, “The Intuitionist.” Interview: Colson Whitehead 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z When A$AP Rocky sat with director Dexter Navy to flesh out the visual conceit for the rapper’s song “L$D,” he wanted it to be “trippy.” A$AP Rocky Talks About the Influences Behind 'LSD' 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z And “Colossal” itself wrings a great deal of fun — and also some genuine terror, by no means all of it monster-related — from its blithely bizarre conceit. Review: ‘Colossal,’ With Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis and Giant Monsters 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z One of Mr. Mirarchi’s sillier conceits in the early days was making you wait more than two hours for an ordinary slice of filone, presented as its own course. Restaurant Review: Blanca in Bushwick, Brooklyn 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z But it was only after many workshops that the musical’s key conceit came to life: That the characters would sing only when on drugs. Up, Up and Away: The Trippy Tales Behind ‘Flying Over Sunset’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z If “Nocturama” was a glossy execution of a superficial conceit, “Zombi Child,” the director’s new film, is a scintillating act of discretion — or, if you are disinclined to trust Bonello, of evasion. ‘Zombi Child’ Review: Race, Class and Voodoo 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Somewhere underneath it all there is a guiding structural conceit, but every time it comes briefly into focus, the music rushes you relentlessly onwards. Eilliott Carter: music of storms and stillness 2013-06-07T08:00:27Z In a way, it might be a good thing to have recruited a new editor without literary conceit whose success depends less on taste than it does on the Book Review's very survival. The New York Times Book Review's retirement plan 2013-04-29T15:03:00Z The director’s “inspired idea of showing the very thing that most movies either ignore or awkwardly elide — the passage of time — is its impressive, headline-making conceit,” she added. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Love Trip: Paris’ and American Idol 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z The new movie takes its cues from the conceit of the original—but introduces a quad of female mains, for which it’s received a torrent of Internet backlash. The Whole 'Ghostbusters' Gang Is Getting Back Together 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z But the conceit has its drawbacks, one of them being a sameness of approach that sets in, as each of the 25 characters steps forward to have his or her say. Perspective | Restaged in front of the AFL-CIO’s national headquarters, ‘Working’ the musical labors to be a vehicle for activism 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z “Succession” returns to one of its most common storytelling conceits this week, as the Roys and their entourage gather in a spectacular location, to celebrate and to scheme. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 5 Recap: Bleed the Swede 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z I wish I could tell you that it’s a sly conceit, woven cunningly into a play that’s all about a noisy political culture rife with mixed signals. ‘Totalitarians’: Woolly takes a risk and stumbles badly with a murky political satire If I was stopped now and then by Crimp’s more mystifying conceits — a Borscht Belt envoi? Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ Now Noseless and Drunk on Words 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z The title “Nine Muses” derives from its overarching structural conceit, a series of chapter headings dedicated to each of the ancient Greek muses. | 'The Nine Muses': ?The Nine Muses,? by John Akomfrah - Review 2011-10-05T22:07:26Z The conceit is that this movie’s game masters absolutely intend to kill the six invitees who at first find themselves in a waiting area that turns into a people-cooking oven. ‘Escape Room’ Review: Puzzle Your Way Out, or You’re Dead 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z But the conceit’s carried out with good humor that will hopefully last for seasons to come. The 8 Best New Fall TV Shows You Should Watch 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z The conceit may remind some of the Wooster Group’s production of “Hamlet,” another multimedia piece that recreated a production from the 1960s. | 'The Speaker?s Progress': ?The Speaker?s Progress? in Brooklyn - Review 2011-10-08T00:55:17Z The conceit that Echo’s echoes of the soprano were enthusiastic interpolations, rapidly shushed by the two other singers, was particularly funny. Review | Early-career professionals bring flair to a tough Strauss score 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The book jump-starts itself with a lovely and nervy conceit: that we write in our heads. Of Mice and Men 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z But the central conceit, of socially awkward nerds constantly outsmarted by the women around them, has led to criticism from certain quarters for patronising the culture it purports to celebrate. How The Big Bang Theory became the Friends of the iPhone generation 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The novel’s conceit is easily summarized, less easily parsed. ‘Look Who’s Back,’ With a Resurrected Adolf Hitler 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z He’s a narrative conceit in a novel that puts different fundamentalisms into dialectical play. Movie Review: ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist,’ Directed by Mira Nair 2013-04-25T23:17:37Z A founding conceit of 3rd Rock was that the aliens hadn’t managed to choose human bodies that matched their extraterrestrial identities. Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 'Edward Snowden was warm, kind, thoughtful' 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Like relying on the satirical conceit that gives “The Freezer Door” its title — an ice cube embarks on a wide-ranging discussion with the tray that forms and confines it. Review | ‘The Freezer Door’ is an aching, playful memoir of vivid desire amid the desperation of midlife disconnection 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The following night, on “The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore,” Mr. Wilmore began one of the show’s familiar sketch conceits, speaking with a fake guest: in this case, Mr. Trump’s hair. For Larry Wilmore, a Wagging Finger Replaces a Wink on ‘The Nightly Show’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z No matter how foolish his conceits, his eye never betrayed him. Bow and Cooper in ‘Children of Divorce’: Poor Little Silent Rich Kids 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z It's probably the most tenuous conceit on the fringe – Paker establishes it, then deviates wildly. Henry Paker ? review 2011-08-21T15:04:02Z In “Boyhood,” Mr. Linklater’s inspired idea of showing the very thing that most movies either ignore or awkwardly elide — the passage of time — is its impressive, headline-making conceit. Movie Review: Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ Is a Model of Cinematic Realism 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Cinema and literature remind us that our resources are finite, our demons many, and that despite our capacity for wonder we possess the conceit and folly to turn the planet into a vicious Darwinian struggle. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The show’s conceit is that you can go anywhere in your imagination, and the fuzzy critters do, singing and dancing all the way. Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 17-23 2012-02-16T22:43:37Z Meanwhile, "Awake's" conceit is quite simply that no one is quite sure which version of events is real. Midseason TV shows may 'Smash' convention 2012-01-12T19:24:50Z In the screenplay’s most original conceit Robert leads Gus into role-playing theater games while trying to explain the creative process, but they go nowhere. Movie Review: ‘Collaborator,’ Martin Donovan’s Directing Debut 2012-07-05T21:40:31Z But the director argued at the time of the controversy that his conceit came from the heart of Shakespeare’s play. Perspective | The president opens his mouth daily, and the American theater bites back 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z What was objectionable about all this wasn't Heston – he's an acquired taste, but on the whole I can take him – but the fundamental conceit that what he was doing was in some way useful. TV review: Heston's Fantastical Food; Dara Ó Briain's Science Club 2012-11-06T22:00:02Z Mr. Lee is not concerned that audiences may find the conceit too over the top. Spike Lee Takes on the Klan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The found-footage conceit reaches an apex here, with the two actors sometimes passing the camera between them, in character. Review: ‘Creep,’ a Horror Film With the Look of Found Footage 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z The conceit of the “Paranormal Activity” films and their imitators is that the terrifying images the audience sees have been captured by the characters on their cellphones or webcams. Movie Review: ?The Innkeepers,? a Paranormal Film Directed by Ti West 2012-02-02T22:50:06Z The play’s conceit is, frankly, artificial and a bit hoary. Theater Review: Audra McDonald in ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill’ 2014-04-14T02:00:01Z Still, the derivative formal conceit helps to enliven the derivative plot. ‘Inner Demons,’ a Horror Film, Stars Lara Vosburgh 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The track was named after a Japanese manga and anime series, whose conceit involves a notebook with lethal magical powers. The Playlist: Bob Dylan’s New Song and Merle Haggard’s Final Recording 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The film is also hemmed in by its formal conceits. ‘Cousin Jules’: a couple quietly living in a state of nostalgia 2014-03-06T20:32:54Z A sense of familiarity comes attached to the conceit of this thriller, which takes a B-movie setup and posits it in surprisingly smart, grounded territory. No sequels allowed: the 12 best alternative movies to watch this summer 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z But the conceit presupposes that he suffered a terrible injustice when NBC tried to push “Tonight” back past midnight to make room for Mr. Leno after his ill-fated move to 10 p.m. Comedy Review: Conan O?Brien?s ?Legally Prohibited? Tour Hits New York 2010-06-02T22:16:00Z It's not conceit, it's just… I'm in my own world quite a bit. Patti Smith: punk poet queen 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z Vallée capitalizes on the prettiness of this conceit by shuffling history and present together throughout each episode, increasingly bleeding and blurring the borders between the two as the plot moves along. Women’s anger is not to be ignored: Lessons from HBO’s “Sharp Objects” 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z |
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